IBM 650 Component
date: label: Date made
content: 1954 or later.
name: label: maker
content: IBM
label: maker
content: IBM
notes: label: Description
content: This component from an IBM 650 computer has a U-shaped metal frame with one vacuum tube wired through several reseistors and other electronic components to a socket. It served as a trial exhibit in Honeywell's challenge to the Eckert and Mauchly patent on the ENIAC (for more details on the trial, see 1975.319077.01). A tag indicates that it was exhibit number 23436.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Honeywell Information Systems, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1975.319077.15
label: catalog number
content: 319077.15
label: accession number
content: 319077
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mainframe Component
label: Other Terms
content: Mainframe Component; Plug-In Circuit
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (tag material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic. (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15.5 cm x 2.3 cm x 2.3 cm; 6 3/32 in x 29/32 in x 29/32 in