UNIVAC I Serial Plate
date: label: Date made
content: 1951
name: label: user
content: Remington Rand Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation carefully labeled the parts to the computers it made. This plate originally was on the a part of the first UNIVAC I, used at the Bureau of the Census. It is marked: MODEL NO. 10 P 355 SER. NO. 001 (/) ECKERT-MAUCHLY (/) COMPUTER CORP., PHILA., PA. (/) DIVISION OF REMINGTON RAND, INC. (/) DATE 3/30/51. When parts of the UNIVAC I from the Bureau of the Census were given to the Smithsonian in 1963, the plate was removed from that object and put on a commemorative plaque which has museum number 1962.24310.05. The plate has since been removed from the plaque.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1962.243210.04
label: catalog number
content: 243210.04
label: accession number
content: 243210
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mainframe Component
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4.4 cm x 9 cm; 1 23/32 in x 3 17/32 in