Cartridges for the Harvest TRACTOR System
date: label: date made
content: 1962
name: label: maker
content: IBM
notes: label: Description
content: The first transistorized computer made by IBM was the IBM 7030 or STRETCH. The first of these was installed at Los Alamos in 1961. The following year, a customized version of the STRETCH known as the IBM 7950 or Harvest went to the National Security Agency at Ft. George Meade, Maryland. It ran there until 1976. The Harvest included a system of six drives which handled data on magnetic tape stored on cartridges. This was known as the TRACTOR tape system or IBM 7955. This is part of the TRACTOR system, eighty cartridges used to store data. The dimensions given are for each individual cartridge.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Poughkeepsie
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: U.S. Department of Defense, National Security Agency
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CI.336214.09
label: accession number
content: 1977.0144
label: catalog number
content: 336214.09
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mainframe Component
label: Object Name
content: mainframe computer component
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: each: 35.4 cm x 61.3 cm x 9 cm; 13 15/16 in x 24 1/8 in x 3 17/32 in