IBM 1052 Printer Keyboard
date: label: date made
content: ca 1970
name: label: maker
content: IBM
label: maker
content: IBM
notes: label: Description
content: This keyboard was acquired to represent part of the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) system, developed for the FBI. A unit like this one automatically handled polling for terminals in the system which utilized this type of equipment (the FBI no longer had any original IBM 1052 units in storage). The housing is metal, white with blue keys. This is basically an electric typewriter modified with computer interface options. There are switches above the keyboard to turn on and off the printer, keyboard and CPS. There are also four indicator light buttons to the right of the keyboard. Cables are attached.
label: Description
content: In 1967, the F.B.I. instituted a computer center known as the N.C.I.C. (National Crime Information Center) to track criminal activity across the United States. It included not only a duplex IBM 320/40 computer system for data processing, but had IBM 1052 printer/ keyboards served as a terminal (for a related teletype machine, see 1989.0443.01).
label: Description
content: For further information on the entire system, see 1989.0443.01.
label: Description
content: References:
label: Description
content: Accession file 1989.0433.
label: Description
content: National Crime Information Center, <I>Operating Manual, Part I, System Description and Procedures</I>, 1967.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: International Business Machines Corporation, Information Systems Group, South-West Marketing Division
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0407.01
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0407.01
label: accession number
content: 1988.0407
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mainframe Peripheral
label: Object Name
content: mainframe computer peripheral
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 in x 21 in x 19 1/2 in; 22.86 cm x 53.34 cm x 49.53 cm