Mainframe Computer Component, IBM Display
date: label: Date made
content: 1965
name: label: maker
content: IBM
label: maker
content: IBM
notes: label: Description
content: The metal frame has a black plastic front and a black plastic support for two rows of prongs in back. The front has 4 rows of glass neon glow lamps, with twenty lamps in a row. The rows are labeled, from top to bottom: 8 (/) 4 (/) 2 (/) 1. Going from left to right, the first five columns of lamps are separated by a line and marked "P". The next five are marked "Q" and the next five "R". One column is labeled "SHI", two columns "OP1", and the final two "S2". The lamps are wired to resistors which in turn are attached by cloth-covered wires to the prongs. Covered by plexiglass.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Armonk
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: International Business Machines
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.3064.04
label: catalog number
content: 1993.3064.04
label: nonaccession number
content: 1993.3064
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mainframe Component
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7.7 cm x 21.8 cm x 7.3 cm; 3 1/32 in x 8 19/32 in x 2 7/8 in