Photograph, SOLO Computer Operator's Console
date: label: date made
content: ca 1960
notes: label: Description
content: black and white. Photograph of the "Solo" computer. The computer with the panels closed and a swivel chair in front of it.
label: Description
content: Between 1955 and its delivery in 1958, Philco Corporation designed and constructed a very early transistorized computer for the National Security Agency. It was dubbed SOLO and was to be a logical copy of the agency's Atlas II. SOLO was to produce empirical statistics in problem situations and to aid on the design and construction of special-purpose equipment. It ran until 1963, when it was turned over to a machine-processing group at N.S.A. for training purposes.
label: Description
content: The black-and-white photograph shows what may be the operator's console for the SOLO. A mark in the top center reads: PHILCO. A mark below an array of components reads: Solo.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Samuel S. Snyder, <I>History of NSA General Purpose Computers</I>, Washington, D.C. : Department of Defense, esp. pp. 29-32.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Philip J. Bochicchio
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.3110.10
label: catalog number
content: 1989.3110.10
label: nonaccession number
content: 1989.3110
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 cm x 29 cm; 14 3/16 in x 11 7/16 in