UNIVAC Magnetic Tape
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1960
name: label: maker
content: Remington Rand Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Early commercial computers sold by Remington Rand, the UNIVAC I and the UNIVAC II, as well as the company's somewhat later LARC computer built with more powerful capabilities,encoded data and programs onto reels of magnetic tape. This is one of these reels of tape. It has a paper tag on the front that reads :P.E. It also reads: U. E. C. PHILA. - PROGRAMMING RESEARCH. Another tag reads: INVENTORY DEC 10, 1962. A stamp reads: 2158450. A mark on the other side of the reel reads: UNIVAC (/) MADE IN U.S.A. That side is also engraved: LARC 215845. Another tag loose with the tape reads: P E (/) PROGRAMMER A. E. ADAMS -. UNIVAC programmers moved to the Univac Engineering Center (UEC), in Whitpain Township, Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, in 1961.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Unisys Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0638.05
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0638.05
label: accession number
content: 1982.0638
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mainframe computer component
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/8 in x 8 in; 2.2225 cm x 20.32 cm