Mainframe Computer Component, IBM 7070 SMS (Standard Modular System) Card
date: label: date made
content: 1963
name: label: maker
content: IBM
notes: label: Description
content: Insurance companies have long depended of computing devices for their work. From January of 1963 until mid-August of 1974, Acacia Mutual Life Insurance Company had an IBM 7070 mainframe computer instralled in its data processing department in Washington, D.C. The IBM 7070 was a large transistorized mainframe computer, the business version of the IBM 7090. The IBM 7070 used SMS (standardized modular system) cards, circuits used not only in computers in IBM's 7000 and 1400 series, but on peripheral devices for computers in the series. Such cards would by superseded by the SLT (solid logic technology) cards of the IBM 360 computer. This card is marked on the back: 491117. Compare 1977.0456.09, 1977.0456.10, and 1977.0456.11. All have the mark 491117 and the same circuits on the back. However, the components are slightly different (.10 has fewer resistors).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: ACACIA MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY (THROUGH MARTIN M WEAVER AND GEORGE R WALTER)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.0456.10
label: accession number
content: 1977.0456
label: catalog number
content: 336035
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mainframe Component
label: Object Name
content: mainframe computer component
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: .9 cm x 11.5 cm x 6.6 cm; 11/32 in x 4 17/32 in x 2 19/32 in