Mainframe Computer Component, CG24 Circuit Board, Eight-Position Matrix Switch
date: label: date made
content: 1958
name: label: maker
content: Lincoln Laboratory, MIT
notes: label: Description
content: In the years following World War II, MIT established Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Massachusetts, to carry out research projects for the U.S. military. These included building the CG24, a transistorized computer that could simulate real time conditions. Designed and built in 1956 and 1957, it ran from 1958 until being scrapped in 1966-67. The CG24 was installed in Westford, Massachusetts, to interpret data from a tracking radar on Millstone Hill. Initially intended to track incoming missiles, the radar and computer also followed artificial satellites and measured lunar features.
label: Description
content: Some twenty-four components of the CG24 are included in accession 304346, most of them individual circuit boards.
label: Description
content: This brown board is marked: TCM 2 8 POSITION MATRIX SWITCH - 2. A paper tag that came with the object reads: 8-position (/) matrix switch (/) (to produce octal (/) output).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Lexington
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CI.333906
label: accession number
content: 304346
label: catalog number
content: 333906
objectType: label: Object Name
content: computer component, mainframe
label: Object Name
content: mainframe computer component
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 cm x 14.5 cm x 16 cm; 13/32 in x 5 23/32 in x 6 5/16 in