Computer Component, RW-300 Magnetic Drum Memory
date: label: date made
content: ca 1961
name: label: maker
content: Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: In 1953, Simon Ramo and Dean Wooldrige left their jobs at Hughes Aircraft to form theire own aerospace company, with backing from Thompson Products, a maker of aircraft engine parts. The two firms merged in 1958. The next year, TRW intoduced the transistorized RW-300 computer, which sold into the 1960s. It was notable for such real-time uses as industrial process control and aircraft simulation. This is the magnetic drum memory from a RW-300, given to the Smithsonian in 1973 by Richard M. Alden of new Cannan, Connecticut.
label: Description
content: For a more complete RW-300, see accession 312146.
label: Description
content: References:
label: Description
content: Martin H. Weik, A Third Survey of Domestic Electronic Digital Computing Systems, Part 2, Ballistic Research Laboratories, 1961, p. 838-839.
label: Description
content: James W. cortada, "TRW," <I>Historical Dictionary of Data Processing Organizations</I>, New York: Greenwood Press, 1987, pp. 266-268
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Richard M. Alden
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CI.335326
label: accession number
content: 309502
label: catalog number
content: 335326
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mainframe Component
label: Object Name
content: mainframe computer component
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 52.3 cm x 39 cm x 39 cm; 20 19/32 in x 15 11/32 in x 15 11/32 in