Model 28 ASR Teletype
date: label: date made
content: ca 1967
name: label: maker
content: Teletype Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: In 1967, the F.B.I. instituted a computer center known as the N.C.I.C. (National Crime Information Center) to track criminal activity across the United States. It included not only a duplex IBM 320/40 computer system for data processing, but teletype machines like this one for entering and receiving data from throughout the country. An IBM 1052 printer and keyboard also served as a terminal (for an example, see 1988.0407.01). The teletype was transferred to the Smithsonian from the F.B.I. in 1989.
label: Description
content: The system stored information concerning stolen automobiles, license plates, guns, and other identifiable articles, aas well as wanted persons. It represents the first attempt by a national law enforcement agency to make its extensive records on crimes and criminal avalable quickly at any time of day or night to local police departments throughout the country, It symbolizes changes in the relationship between electronic information technology and privacy, government power, and the limits of law enforcement.
label: Description
content: References:
label: Description
content: Accession file 1989.0433.
label: Description
content: National Crime Information Center, <I>Operating Manual, Part I, System Description and Procedures</I>, 1967.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Crime Information Center
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0433.01
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0433.01
label: accession number
content: 1989.0433
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mainframe Peripheral
label: Object Name
content: mainframe computer peripheral
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 38 in x 35 in x 32 in; 96.52 cm x 88.9 cm x 81.28 cm