Mainframe and Output Section, Mims Analog Translator
date: label: Date made
content: 1961 - 1962
name: label: maker
content: Mims III, Forrest M.
notes: label: Description
content: As a high school student in the early 1960s, Forrest M. Mims III built a series of analog computers. His most advanced machine, which included a programmable analog memory array, could translate twenty words of Russian into English. This is the mainframe and output section from the machine.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Forrest M. Mims, III
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0463.01.1
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0463.01.1
label: accession number
content: 1986.0463
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Analog Computer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 29.2 cm x 36 cm x 34 cm; 11 1/2 in x 14 3/16 in x 13 3/8 in