RCA type 6499 “Radechon” data storage tube
date: label: date made
content: ca 1955
name: label: maker
content: Radio Corporation of America
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: An 14-pin plastic base with center post, T-shaped envelope with metal sheath. Top plate with 8 pins. A data storage tube similar to a cathode ray tube. Donor’s card reads: “Radechon made by the Radio Corporation of America about 1955. Charge-storage tube, single beam, barrier grid type. Non-equilibrium writing type, capacitance discharge reading. Electrostatic focus and deflection. Heater type 6.3 volts at .6 ampere.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_6499.html.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Paul G. Watson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.325196
label: catalog number
content: 325196
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube
label: Object Name
content: vacuum tube
label: Object Name
content: data storage tube
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 3 1/4 in; 30.48 cm x 8.255 cm