Logbook for the G-15 Computer
date: label: date made
content: 1965
name: label: maker
content: Bendix
notes: label: Description
content: This bound logbook has a black cover. It describes repairs to the Bendix G-15 computer in the Bendix Computer Division of Bendix Aviation between April 21 and October 10 of 1965. According to the title page, it is log book number 103 and was issured to Donald E. Trumbo on July 20, 1956. Only three pages have entries.
label: Description
content: Trumbo (1928-2022), a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, had worked at both Bendix and TRW, but left California in 1961 to head the instrumentation engineering group at Kitt Peak Observatory. Hence he was not the author of these logbook entries from 1965.
label: Description
content: The logbook was received with a Bendix G-15 computer - see acquisition 1988.0435.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Los Angeles
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Harry D. and Velma R. Huskey
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.3106.40
label: catalog number
content: 1988.3106.40
label: nonaccession number
content: 1988.3106
objectType: label: Object Name
content: documentation
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 11 in; 21.59 cm x 27.94 cm