Mainframe Computer Component, Logic Package for the BRLESC (Two Vacuum Tubes and Two Magnetic Core Memories)
date: label: date made
content: 1959
notes: label: Description
content: The BRLESC (Ballistics Research Laboratory Electronic Scientific Computer - pronounced like the word burlesque) - was a computer developed at the BRL from 1955, with plug-in logic modules like these designed and built by the National Bureau of Standards. The computer functioned 1962, the same year this logic package for it was given to the Smithsonian. The circuit board includes a single vacuum tube, one transformer, and array of other electrical components. A mark reads: NBS (/) ST-3F. Compare CI.321735 and CI.321726.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Department of the Army
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CI.321735
label: catalog number
content: 321735
label: accession number
content: 242457
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mainframe computer component
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 in x 4 1/2 in; 17.78 cm x 11.43 cm