Mainframe Computer Peripheral, Reservisor Agent's Set
date: label: date made
content: 1952-1956
notes: label: Description
content: This is part of a system called the Reservisor, an early attempt to automate booking on commercial airlines. In the mid-twentieth century, Teleregister Corporation of Stamford, Connecticut, made several models of agent set, including this one, which linked to an electronic computer. American Airlines was a particularly good customer. American would soon switch its reservation procedures to a specially designed IBM computer system called the SABRE. For an accession relation to it, see 1987.0130.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Stamford
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bunker-Ramo Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0815.04
label: accession number
content: 1987.0815
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0815.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mainframe Component
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 in x 15 in x 10 in; 35.56 cm x 38.1 cm x 25.4 cm