Memorandum on Computer Resources at Macro Systems
date: label: date made
content: 1981
name: label: maker
content: Macro Systems Inc
notes: label: Description
content: This is one of a series of memos received with an Interdata 7/32 minicomputer that had been used at Macro Systems in Silver Spring, Maryland. Dated January 2, 1981, it is from Bruce Mellen, who worked with the Interdata there, and describes domputer resources at Macro. These included parts of the 7/32 (here called a Perkin-Elmer 7/32) and its peripherals; and the computer languages MFP, FORTRAN, BASIC (not fully supported), Perkin-Elmer assembler, and SPSS. Utilitites included Editor, Star Trek II, discs, and tape. Procedures for using computer time are outlined. Other computer equipment included four terminals/cradle modems for dialing out to outher mainframes and one TEX microcomputer.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Silver Spring
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Macro Systems, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.3037.10
label: catalog number
content: 1986.3037.10
label: nonaccession number
content: 1986.3037
objectType: label: Object Name
content: documentation, Interdata 7/32
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 in x 11 in; 20.32 cm x 27.94 cm