Magnetic Tape File Unit for a Datamatic 1000 Computer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1957
name: label: maker
content: Honeywell Information Systems
notes: label: Description
content: The Massachusetts-based DATAmatic Division of Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Company sold one of its room-sized DATAmatic 1000 systems to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, where it was installed at the company's Central Building in Baltimore and used for payroll, fraight revenue accounting, and car accounting. Data was stored on the computer on reels of magnetic tape. This is one of the units that held magnetic tape.
label: Description
content: Datamatic 1000 documentation dates to at least as early as 1955. The railroad retired the its copy of the computer in 1969, and gave this part of it to the Smithsonian.
label: Description
content: According to the accession file, this object is in two parts. A pamphlet describing the machine (see 1987.0748.04), suggest that these parts may be a white unit and a gray unit. The gray unit actually had a reel of magnetic tape installed. There were a total of six of these paired units in the Baltimore installation.
label: Description
content: For related magnetic tape see 1987.0748.02 and 1987.0748.03
label: Description
content: References:
label: Description
content: Accession file 1987.0748.
label: Description
content: Martin H. Weik, <I>A Third Survey of Domestic Electronic Computing Systems</I>, Aberdeen Proving Ground: Ballistic Research Laboratories, 1961, pp. 214-221. According to this source, the instalation at B&O in Maryland rented for a total of $43,245 per month. It included 12 Model 1100 magnetic file units, which rented for $10,800 per month total.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Newton, Newton Highlands
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: B & O / C& O Railroad
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0748.01
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0748.01
label: accession number
content: 1987.0748
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mainframe Peripheral
label: Object Name
content: mainframe computer peripheral
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: part a: 198.1 cm x 109.2 cm x 78.1 cm; 78 in x 43 in x 30 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: part b: 197.5 cm x 147.3 cm x 77.5 cm; 77 3/4 in x 58 in x 30 1/2 in