Minicomputer Component, SCOTCH BRAND 488 Magnetic Tape for the CDC 160
date: label: date made
content: ca 1965
name: label: maker
content: 3M Company
notes: label: Description
content: This reel of tape fits in a cardboard sleeve which in turn slides into a paper container. The sleeve, and the edge of the sleeve, are marked: Scotch (/) BRAND magnetic tape. The edge of the sleeve is marked: CATALOG (/) NUMBER 488 25. A comment penned on the back of the container reads: Borrowed from Tim Pope No Good
label: Description
content: The tape was received with a CDC 160 minicomputer. Control Data introduced the CDC 160 in 1960, following the design of Seymour Cray. According to the accession file, the example in the Smithsonian collections was the first produced. The machine was discarded in 1974. Hence the rough date of 1965 assigned to various components.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Department of Defense
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.3004.11
label: catalog number
content: 1983.3004.11
label: nonaccession number
content: 1983.3004
objectType: label: Object Name
content: computer component
label: Object Name
content: minicomputer component
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3.2 cm x 28 cm x 28 cm; 1 1/4 in x 11 in x 11 in