Mainframe Computer Component, SAGE Spare Tubes, IBM AN/FSQ-7
name: label: maker
content: IBM
notes: label: Description
content: These unused vacuum tubes were designed for an IBM AN/FSQ-7 computer, part of the SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment) air defense system built by IBM for the U.S. Air Force and used from 1959 into 1983. There are a total of about 120 of these spare vacuum tubes presently in the collections. The system required some 30,000 tubes total.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from U.S. Department of Defense, Department of the Air Force, Air Defense Tactical Air Command (through Lt. Col. Joseph H. Gerard)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0298.19
label: accession number
content: 1983.0298
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0298.19
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mainframe Component
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
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