Mainframe Computer Peripheral, Honeywell H 822 Printer Actuator Module
notes: label: Description
content: In 1964, after considerable delay, the U.S. Patent Office granted a patent to J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly for "an electronic numerical integrator and computer," as embodied in the ENIAC computer which had been built in the Moore School of Electrical Engineering of the University of Pennsylvania during World War II. Sperry Rand, the successor company to the Eckert-Mauchly Corporation that had been formed to develop commercial versions of the ENIAC, sued competing computer companies for patent infringement. The competing firm of Honeywell countersued, asserting the patnt fradulent. In 1973, Honeywell was upheld by a ruling of Judge Earl Larson, who concluded that the ENIAC was derived from a prototype developed by J.V. Atanassoff and C. E. Berry at Iowa State University. Extensive documentation on the case is presently in papers at the Hagley Museum and Library.
label: Description
content: This object is one of several exhibits used by Honeywell in the case and given by Honeywell to the Smithsonian afterward. It is a printer actuator module, Honeywell H22, and, according to the tag on it, has Honeywell Trial Exhibit number 23239.The part has an open metal frame in the shape of a sixth of a circle. There are six "spokes" in the frame, each of which leads to a four-holed socket on the rim. These plugs are numberd from 1 to 6.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Honeywell Information Systems, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1975.319077.01
label: accession number
content: 319077
label: catalog number
content: 319077.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mainframe Peripheral
label: Other Terms
content: Mainframe Peripheral; Printer Actuator Module
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 cm x 16.9 cm x 2.7 cm; 7 3/32 in x 6 21/32 in x 1 1/16 in