Mainframe Computer Component, IBM 650 Drum Cross Section
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1958
name: label: maker
content: IBM
notes: label: Description
content: This computer component is black on one side with six groups of wires coming out of the edge. Each group of wires is divided into three parts, with the wires of each part diverging into three connectors. The other side is silver -colored with a groove outside the central disc. This is a cross-section of the magnetic drum for an IBM 650 mainframe computer, acquired from IBM in 1967 for an exhibit on computer memories.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: International Business Machines Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CI.328575
label: accession number
content: 1986.0779
label: catalog number
content: 328575
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mainframe Component
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 5/8 in x 7 1/4 in x 1 1/4 in; 14.2875 cm x 18.415 cm x 3.175 cm