SEAC Tape Drive
date: label: date made
content: ca 1950
name: label: maker
content: National Bureau of Standards
notes: label: Description
content: This steel cabinet with a gray wrinkle finish was used as an auxiliary memory for the SEAC (Standards Eastern Automatic Computer), a stored program electronic computer built at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards for the U.S. Army. The SEAC first ran in 1950. It was the first operating stored program electronic computer in the United States, and one of the first in the world.
label: Description
content: The tape head is near the top with the loose tape stored below. The tape storage area has a clear plastic front panel. The full length back door is missing.
label: Description
content: References:
label: Description
content: R.J. Slutz, "Memories of the Bureau of Standards' SEAC," in N. Metropolis et al, eds., <I>A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century</I>, New York: Academic Press, 1980, pp. 471-477.
label: Description
content: M.R. Williams, <I>A History of Computing Technology</I>, Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society Press, 1997, pp.365-368.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0305.01
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0305.01
label: accession number
content: 1980.0305
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mainframe Peripheral
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 170.2 cm x 57 cm x 48.5 cm; 67 in x 22 7/16 in x 19 3/32 in