Mainframe Computer Component, UNIVAC II Plug-In Unit
date: label: date made
content: ca 1960
name: label: manufacturer
content: Sperry-Univac Computer Systems
label: maker
content: Remington Rand Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: This plug-in unit has a red plastic and black plastic or metal substrate. There are five vacuum tubes, nine transistors, and a variety of other electronic components. A tag in one corner reads: Remington Rand (/) UNIVAC. It also reads: TYPE 496024B2A (/) PART 188950. Another tag near this one reads: Spare #3.
label: Description
content: This object was used as evidence in a suit Honeywell filed against Sperry Rand challenging the defendent's patent rights relating to the design of the electronic computer. A tag attached to the object indicates it had Honeywell's trial exhibit # 23433. : For more on the leagal proceedins, see 1975.319077.01.
label: Description
content: Copies of the UNIVAC II sold from 1957 onward into the early 1960s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Honeywell Information Systems, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1975.319077.13
label: accession number
content: 319077
label: catalog number
content: 319077.13
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mainframe Component
label: Object Name
content: mainframe computer component
label: Other Terms
content: Mainframe Component; Plug-In Circuit
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 cm x 31 cm x 4.8 cm; 7 3/32 in x 12 7/32 in x 1 7/8 in