IBM 360 Circuit Package
date: label: date made
content: 1965-1967
name: label: maker
content: IBM
label: maker
content: IBM
notes: label: Description
content: In its 360 line of computers, IBM introduced diverse internally designed and made solid logic technology chips, rather than relying on components made by other manufacturers. This array of ten chips offers one example of this technology. Each chip is marked: 361427 (/) IBM (/) 751361 (/) 1-5 26003. Ten black units between the chips are marked: 239 0468 (one of these units is cut away, revealing a circuit). All the components attach to a green plastic board A mark on the endpiece for the board reads: 3325 A 5118 YB. The board would plug into another board at this end.
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 patent 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. Honeywell's trial exhibit number for the object is 23439.
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: 1975.319077.12
label: accession number
content: 319077
label: catalog number
content: 335653
label: catalog number
content: 319077.12
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mainframe Component
label: Object Name
content: mainframe computer component
label: Other Terms
content: Mainframe Component; Circuit Package
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4.4 cm x 7.7 cm x 1 cm; 1 23/32 in x 3 1/32 in x 13/32 in