IBM 2280-5002 Film Recorder: Museum Object and Cultural History
IBM 2280-5002 Film Recorder: date made: 1968. maker: IBM. maker: IBM.
The object in the museum catalogue
This large metal cabinet is white in front and black on the sides - one side panel is missing. It opens in front.
In the 1960s, IBM engineers designed a machine to store and retrieve engineering graphics, the IBM 2280 film recorder. It sold in conjunction with the IBM 360 computer. Three IBM 2280s sold, one of them to the Chemical Abstracts Service Division of the American Chemical Society in Columbus, Ohio. This is part of that machine, used by Chemical Abstracts from 1968 until early 1974. It was modified by programmers there to perform phototypesetting. Many principles developed with incorporated in later electronic photocomposition equipment.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1968
- maker: IBM
- maker: IBM
- Object Name: Mainframe Component
- Measurements: overall: 180 cm x 116.5 cm x 76.5 cm; 70 7/8 in x 45 7/8 in x 30 1/8 in
- ID Number: CI.336217
- accession number: 314462
- catalog number: 336217
- Credit Line: Chemical Abstracts Service
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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