Mainframe Computer Component, IBM 7070 Control Box
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.
label: Description
content: This control box for the IBM 7070 has a metal case painted gray, and two rows of plastic switches at the bottom. Theree dials above are marked "DIGIT SELECT", "BASIC (/) DIGIT DISPLAY", and "SYN CR (/) DISPLAY SELECT". A sticker atop the box reads:CPU". There is a metal handle protruding from near the top at the back. Seven arrays of connecting metal pins are at the base of the back.
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: 1977.0456.02
label: accession number
content: 1977.0456
label: catalog number
content: 336027
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mainframe Component
label: Object Name
content: mainframe computer component
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11.9 cm x 22.2 cm x 45.8 cm; 4 11/16 in x 8 3/4 in x 18 1/32 in