Mainframe Computer Component, Univac 1105 Core Plane
date: label: date made
content: ca 1960
name: label: maker
content: Sperry-Univac Computer Systems
notes: label: Description
content: The UNIVAC 1105 was a mainframe computer introduced by the UNIVAC Division of Sperry Rand in 1958. Its circuitry included vacuum tubes, diodes, and transistors. In addition to magnetic core planes like this one, its memory included one or more magnetic drums. This core plane stores 4096 words. A mark on the object reads: Part 92856 (/) Ser. 10086. Another mark reads: UNIVAC (/) 596.
label: Description
content: By 1961, seven UNIVAC 1105s had been installed. Which one, if any. of these housed this core plane is not known.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Alan R. Levinstone, M.D.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0804.02
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0804.02
label: accession number
content: 1988.0804
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Core Plane
label: Object Name
content: mainframe computer component
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: .6 cm x 20.9 cm x 20.9 cm; 1/4 in x 8 7/32 in x 8 7/32 in