Burroughs Atlas Mod 1 Computer Model, Power Supply
date: label: date made
content: ca 1957
name: label: maker
content: Burroughs Manufacturing Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: During the Cold War, Burroughs manufactured several versions of its tranistorized Atlas computer, initially to guide the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile and later for other missiles (including those used to launch some U.S. satellites). This is a painted wooden model of part of the Atlas Mod 1, namely the power supply. A typed tag on the bottom of the model reads: Power (/) Supply.
label: Description
content: The model is the relatively narrow cabinet on the left in the front overall view.
label: Description
content: For an example of the actual computer, see 1986.1014.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Burroughs Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0822.05.2
label: accession number
content: 1987.0822
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0822.05.2
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Model
label: Object Name
content: mainframe computer model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16.3 cm x 8.8 cm x 7.7 cm; 6 13/32 in x 3 15/32 in x 3 1/32 in