Transistor Core Memory, CG24
date: label: date made
content: 1958
name: label: maker
content: Lincoln Laboratory, MIT
notes: label: Description
content: In the years following World War II, MIT established Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Massachusetts, to carry out research projects for the U.S. military. These included building the CG24, a transistorized computer that could simulate real time conditions. Designed and built in 1956 and 1957, it ran from 1958 until being scrapped in 1966-67. The CG24 was installed in Westford, Massachusetts, to interpret data from a tracking radar on Millstone Hill. Initially intended to track incoming missiles, the radar and computer also followed artificial satellites and measured lunar features.
label: Description
content: Some twenty-four components of the CG24 are included in accession 304346, most of them individual circuit boards. This, however, is the part of the core memory of the machine.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Lexington
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CI.333897
label: accession number
content: 304346
label: catalog number
content: 333897
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mainframe Computer Component
label: Object Name
content: mainframe computer component
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/4 in x 28 3/4 in x 12 in; 26.035 cm x 73.025 cm x 30.48 cm