Mainframe Computer Components, Ferranti Mark II High Speed Tape Reader Parts Used with Athena
date: label: date made
content: ca 1953
name: label: maker
content: Ferranti Limited
notes: label: Description
content: This is a miscellaneous group of spare - or dissassembled - parts, most from the Ferranti Mark II High Speed Tape Reader. Included are:
label: Description
content: 1. 7 metal drums with attached gears
label: Description
content: 2. 8 brass gears, with differing additional parts
label: Description
content: 3. 5 relatively complete connectors, 5 less complete connectors, and numerous connector parts
label: Description
content: 4. an extra back plate for the tape drive case
label: Description
content: 5. an extra lamp frame
label: Description
content: 6. an extra tape drive lever
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content: 7. other extra parts, some of them unrelated to the object - these include a Sylvania projection lamp, and an Analex switching device from 1967. There are about 40 parts total.
label: Description
content: Object 1983.3001.50 is the tape reader, objects 1983.3001.38 through 1983.3001.45 and 1983.3001.51 are related parts.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Carnegie Mellon University
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.3001.51
label: nonaccession number
content: 1983.3001
label: catalog number
content: 1983.3001.51
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mainframe computer peripheral components
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4.5 cm x 51 cm x 33 cm; 1 25/32 in x 20 3/32 in x 13 in