Documentation, Amdahl 470 V/7, V/8 Field Engineering Reference Manual
date: label: date made
content: 1982-02
name: label: user
content: Page, Brian R.
notes: label: Description
content: This is an annotated Amdahl V/7, V/8 470 Field Engineering Reference Manual (FERM). It has paper pages of schematics, codes, and other documentation annotated with notes from the donor stored in a orange plastic binder. According to the donor, "My hand-written annotations show how hardware technicians back in the mainframe days actually diagnosed and resolved issues."
label: Description
content: The Amdahl 470 was a mainframe computer that was a competitor to IBM. It was first introduced in 1975. V/7 and V/8 were additional models, the V/6 was the original model. The V/8 model was shipped in 1980 and "incorporated high speed 64 cache buffers to improve perforamnce and the first real hardware based virtualization (known as "Multiple Domain Facility")" (Wikipedia)
label: Description
content: V/7 was a variable speed feature that allowed customers to run the CPUs at a higher performance level when necessary.
label: Description
content: The donor worked for Amdahl Corporation from 1980 to 1988. He served primarily as a software systems engineer in Customer Support & Services but was also hardware cross-trained
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
label: See more items in
content: Computers & Business Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Brian R. Page
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2014.3099.01
label: catalog number
content: 2014.3099.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 2014.3099
objectType: label: Object Name
content: documentation
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 1/2 in x 17 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in; 31.75 cm x 44.45 cm x 3.81 cm