High-Voltage Probe Received with CDC 160 Minicomputer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1965
notes: label: Description
content: This black electrical cable has a connector at one end and a probe at the other. A mark on part of the probe reads: US PAT. 2,883,619. This is a patent, granted April 29, 1959, for an "electrical probe." According to the patent, it is "a passive probe which will errectively transmit signal voltages from an electrical circuit under test to the imput circuit of a wide band amplifier with substantially uniform frequency response over the entire range of frequencies in such band." The patent was taken out by John R. Kobbe and William J. Polits of Beaverton, Oregon, and assigned to Tektronix, Incorporated, of Portland, Oregon. No Tektronix mark is obvious on the object. The probe was received with a CDC 160 minicomputer.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Department of Defense
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.3004.30
label: catalog number
content: 1983.3004.30
label: nonaccession number
content: 1983.3004
objectType: label: Object Name
content: computer component
label: Object Name
content: minicomputer component
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 cm x 22 cm x 10 cm; 2 3/8 in x 8 11/16 in x 3 15/16 in