Deep Blue Supercomputer Tower
date: label: Date made
content: 1997
name: label: Associated Name
content: IBM
label: Associated Name
content: Lasewicz, Paul C.
label: maker
content: IBM
notes: label: Description
content: During the twentieth century, computer developers designed machines that could play games such as Nim, tic-tack-toe, and checkers. Chess remained more difficult. An IBM-sponsored supercomputer named Deep Thought lost to world champion Gary Kasparov in 1989. By May of 1997, IBM was ready for a rematch with a new machine, Deep Blue.
label: Description
content: This is one of two towers that formed the central processing unit of the Deep Blue supercomputer. An IBM RS/6000 housing contains specially built Deep Blue chips. A power cord and two stabilizing feet are also part of the object. The front door is black, the rear door is beige, the base is blue and the power button has a deep red case. Both front and back doors come off the hinges. There is one key needed to open the doors.
label: Description
content: Moves recommended by Deep Blue defeated Kasparov in a highly publicized match.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of IBM Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.0251.01
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0251.01
label: accession number
content: 2002.0251
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Supercomputer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 79 in x 36 in x 47 in; 200.66 cm x 91.44 cm x 119.38 cm