Mainframe Computer Component, Burroughs Thin Film Memory
date: label: date made
content: 1959
name: label: maker
content: Burroughs Manufacturing Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This aluminum box frame has thin film memory units mounted within it (compare the units 1987.0822.01.02 and 1987.0822.01.03). It is a breadboard unit put together as an experiment in 1959. This is Burrough's first working thin film memory breadboard model. Ideas from it would be incorporated in the Burroughs D210 computer.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Burroughs Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0822.03
label: accession number
content: 1987.0822
label: catalog number
content: 326815
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0822.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mainframe Component
label: Object Name
content: mainframe computer component
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 in x 5 3/4 in; 33.02 cm x 14.605 cm