Mainframe Computer Component, Burroughs Thin Film Memory
date: label: date made
content: 1959
notes: label: Description
content: During the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Great Valley Laboratory of Burroughs Corporation developed a series of computer components that would be adopted into its products. Work on a thin film memory plane (such as those of object 1987.0222.01) began in 1957, this breadboard model incorporated such ideas. The visible part of the model has four sheets of fiberboard (paired, with a space in between). There are seven resistors across the top. One pair of boards is mounted to a fiberboard base by a piece of angle aluminum.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Burroughs Defense & Space Group
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0822.02
label: catalog number
content: 326814
label: accession number
content: 1987.0822
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0822.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mainframe computer component
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (circuitry, posts material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (base material)
label: Physical Description
content: fiberboard (sides, base material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 2 in x 6 in; 10.16 cm x 5.08 cm x 15.24 cm