IBM 2280-5002 Film Recorder
date: label: date made
content: 1968
name: label: maker
content: IBM
label: maker
content: IBM
notes: label: Description
content: This large metal cabinet is white in front and black on the sides - one side panel is missing. It opens in front.
label: Description
content: In the 1960s, IBM engineers designed a machine to store and retrieve engineering graphics, the IBM 2280 film recorder. It sold in conjunction with the IBM 360 computer. Three IBM 2280s sold, one of them to the Chemical Abstracts Service Division of the American Chemical Society in Columbus, Ohio. This is part of that machine, used by Chemical Abstracts from 1968 until early 1974. It was modified by programmers there to perform phototypesetting. Many principles developed with incorporated in later electronic photocomposition equipment.
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: NMAH accession file 314462.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Chemical Abstracts Service
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CI.336217
label: accession number
content: 314462
label: catalog number
content: 336217
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mainframe Component
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 180 cm x 116.5 cm x 76.5 cm; 70 7/8 in x 45 7/8 in x 30 1/8 in