Documentation, A History of the Automatic Digital Network (AUTODIN) 1958-1993 (and Beyond)
date: label: date made
content: 1993-09-28
notes: label: Description
content: This white binder contains a draft manuscript of the History of the Automatic Digital Network (AUTODIN). The draft was written in 1993, but it was last accessed/printed around November 2000. Over 300 pages are included and a table of contents was included as well as an incomplete index.
label: Description
content: AUTODIN was the Department of Defense's first computerized message switching system and was implemented in stages in the 1960s. It contained a set of numerous AUTODIN Switching Centers around the world. AUTODIN faciliated the Department of Defense communications needs over the years.
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content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: Gift of Data System Analytics Inc.
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content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2015.3091.02
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content: 2015.3091.02
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content: 2015.3091
objectType: label: Object Name
content: documentation
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content: paper (overall material)
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content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/2 in x 12 1/4 in x 3 3/4 in; 29.21 cm x 31.115 cm x 9.525 cm