Mainframe Computer Component, Core Plane from the LARC
date: label: date made
content: 1960
name: label: maker
content: Remington Rand Univac
notes: label: Description
content: This is a magnetic core plane from one of the two LARC supercomputers built. A product of the UNIVAC division of Remington Rand, the LARC was one of the first computers built using transistors. As the name Livermore Advanced Research Computer suggests, one example, completed in 1960, was for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. The other, delivered in 1960 and put into operation the following year, was for the U.S. Navy's David Taylor Model Basin in Carderock, Maryland.
label: Description
content: The cores appear to be joined by red wires, which intern attach to metal connectors along the four sides of a black plastic frame. The device fits in a specially made pcardboard boa that is marked on the lid: LARC (/) Core (/) Plane.
label: Description
content: The donor, Murray Stein, may have been on the faculty of George Washington University.
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: Gift of Murray Stein
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CI.334618
label: accession number
content: 308972
label: catalog number
content: 334618
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mainframe Component
label: Object Name
content: mainframe computer component
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: in x 3/32 in x 3/32 in; .0254 cm x .254 cm x .254 cm