AUTODIN: A Brief Pictorial History of the Automatic Digital Network
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content: 2015-03
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content: AUTODIN (Automatic Digital Network), the Department of Defense's (DoD) first computerized message switching system, was implemented in stages in the 1960s. The system facilitated their communications needs for over thirty years. AUTODIN provided a worldwide, high-speed, automatic, electronic, data communications system for the U.S. Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Navy, and other government agencies. It handled sensitive and classified messages. In all, fourteen (14) AUTODIN Switching Centers (ASC) were installed around the world. In the mid-late 1990s DoD began converting AUTODIN to the Defense Message Service [DMS] and the Defense Information Systems Network.
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content: This white binder contains a table of contents and approximately 100 pictures documenting the AUTODIN system. The 8 x 10 pictures are divided into sections, indexed, and include pictures of the AUTODIN in different locations around the world. The binder contains a photograph of the deactivation of one of the computers and a sample message.
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: Gift of Data System Analytics Inc.
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content: National Museum of American History
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content: 2015.3091.01
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content: 2015.3091.01
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content: 2015.3091
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content: documentation
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content: plastic (overall material)
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content: paper (overall material)
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content: overall: 11 3/4 in x 11 1/4 in x 2 1/4 in; 29.845 cm x 28.575 cm x 5.715 cm