Module from the UNIVAC I
date: label: date made
content: 1950s
name: label: maker
content: Remington Rand Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: This computer module has an aluminum and plastic framework, with eleven vacuum tubes across the top. The tubes are joined to a variety of resistors, capacitors, and other electronic components below that are wired to a red plastic board that extends across the middle of the object. A plastic board on the bottom has further wiring. There is a steel screw at each end of the top. The top is marked: 8.
label: Description
content: It also is stamped: S 100 005. It has a metal tag attached to it that reads: POSITION S4A B(/) REMINGTON RAND INC. (/) ECKERT-MAUCHLY DIVISION (/) PHILA., PA. (/) SERIAL NO. 803 936. The contacts on the central board are numbered on both sides from 1 to 52. The base is numbered: 8-100010-E.
label: Description
content: All the vacuum tubes are marked on the glass: 6SN7 (/) GTB. Seven tubes are marked: UNIVAC. Two are marked: Reming (/) Rand. Finally, two are marked RCA (/) RADIOTRON (/) ELECTRON (/) TUBE.
label: Description
content: According to the donor, he found the object in the town dump in Tenafly, New Jersey, in the late 1960s and kept it in his basement from then until donating it to the Smithsonian in 1994.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. Alan Van Poznak
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1994.0120.01
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0120.01
label: accession number
content: 1994.0120
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mainframe computer component
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/4 in x 23 1/2 in x 1 3/4 in; 20.955 cm x 59.69 cm x 4.445 cm