Supercomputer Component, CDC Cyber 172 Memory Module
date: label: date made
content: ca 1974
name: label: maker
content: Control Data
notes: label: Description
content: The CDC Cyber 170 series represented a shift for Control Data Corporation, as it moved from discrete electronic devices to integrated circuits and semiconducator memory in its supercomputers. This small memory module has a black metal casing and silver-colored circuitry. Female connectors are at the top, male connectors at the bottom. A stamp on the outside reads in part: OESSR 01056800. It also reads: Control Data Corporation (/) QA (/) 308 (/) ARHOPS. A mark on the top reads: C31102.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Michael R. Williams
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0300.03
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0300.03
label: accession number
content: 1988.0300
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Computer Memory Module
label: Object Name
content: supercomputer component
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 9.3 cm x 3.5 cm x 8.9 cm; 3 21/32 in x 1 3/8 in x 3 1/2 in