Mainframe Computer Component, Honeywell H 800 Memory Write Amplifier
date: label: date made
content: ca 1960
name: label: maker
content: Honeywell Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: In 1964, after considerable delay, the U.S. Patent Office granted a patent to J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly for "an electronic numerical integrator and computer," as embodied in the ENIAC computer which had been built in the Moore School of Electrical Engineering of the University of Pennsylvania during World War II. Sperry Rand, the successor company to the Eckert-Mauchly Corporation that had been formed to develop commercial versions of the ENIAC, sued competing computer companies for patent infringement. The competing firm of Honeywell countersued, asserting the patnt fradulent. In 1973, Honeywell was upheld by a ruling of Judge Earl Larson, who concluded that the ENIAC was derived from a prototype developed by J.V. Atanassoff and C. E. Berry at Iowa State University. Extensive documentation on the case is presently in papers at the Hagley Museum and Library.
label: Description
content: This object is one of several exhibits used by Honeywell in the case and given by Honeywell to the Smithsonian afterward. It is a memory write amplifier from the transistorized Honeywell H 800 computer and, according to the tag on it, has Honeywell Trial Exhibit number 23292.The rectangular metal frame that holds two dark red plastic circuit boards and a variety of resistors and other electronic components. There is a handle on one end and an array of metal connections form a plug on the other end. Compare to 335645 and 335646 (.04 and .05 in this accession).
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: 1975.319077.03
label: accession number
content: 319077
label: catalog number
content: 319077.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mainframe Component
label: Object Name
content: mainframe computer component
label: Other Terms
content: Mainframe Component; Memory Write Amplifier
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 41 cm x 11.7 cm x 4.5 cm; 16 5/32 in x 4 19/32 in x 1 25/32 in