Mainframe Computer Model, IBM 1401
date: label: date made
content: ca 1959
name: label: maker
content: IBM
notes: label: Description
content: This is a wooden plexiglass and paper model of an IBM 1401 computer system. Model pieces include:
label: Description
content: 1. The IBM 1401 central processing unit with control panel.
label: Description
content: 2. A disc storage unit.
label: Description
content: 3. Dual IBM 729 magnetic tape unit (two tape drives - possibly two units)
label: Description
content: 4. A shorter IBM 7330 magnetic tape unit with one tape drive
label: Description
content: 5. A yet shorter tape unit (for paper tape? might be IBM 1101)
label: Description
content: 6. IBM 1406 added memory
label: Description
content: 7. an IBM 1402 card read-punch
label: Description
content: 8. an IBM 1403 printer with paper.
label: Description
content: Dimensions given are for system arranged compactly.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Tim Bergin
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2013.0129.01
label: accession number
content: 2013.0129
label: catalog number
content: 2013.0129.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mainframe computer model
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 9 1/2 in x 11 in; 15.24 cm x 24.13 cm x 27.94 cm