Mainframe Computer Components, Athena Modules #71613
date: label: date made
content: ca 1957
name: label: maker
content: Remington Rand Univac
notes: label: Description
content: This is a collection of parts from the Burroughs Athena computer built by Remington Rand Univac for the U.S. Air Force International Ballistics Missile Program. It was part of the ground-based system for the ICBM Titan and ran synchronized with an online guidance system. The Athena was completed in 1957. Remington Rand Univac built 23 Athena computers that had been distributed to Air force sites by the mid-1960s. In the late 1960s, the air Force gave this eample of the original Athena to the electrical engineering department of Carnegie Mellon University, from which it came to the Smithsonian.
label: Description
content: There are sixty-three examples of this Athena component. It includes multiple resistors and diodes, four transistors and a capacitor. The purpose is not clear, it may have been a switch or part of the memory.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Minnesota, St. Paul
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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: 1983.3001.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 1983.3001
label: catalog number
content: 1983.3001.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mainframe computer components
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 30.6 cm x 33.6 cm x 6.7 cm; 12 1/16 in x 13 7/32 in x 2 5/8 in
label: Measurements
content: part:individual: 5.1 cm x 2.8 cm x 6.7 cm; 2 in x 1 3/32 in x 2 5/8 in