Mainframe Computer Component, Burroughs Thin Film Memory: Museum Object and Cultural History
Mainframe Computer Component, Burroughs Thin Film Memory: date made: 1959. maker: Burroughs Manufacturing Corporation. Object Name: Mainframe Component.
The object in the museum catalogue
This aluminum box frame has thin film memory units mounted within it (compare the units 1987.0822.01.02 and 1987.0822.01.03). It is a breadboard unit put together as an experiment in 1959. This is Burrough's first working thin film memory breadboard model. Ideas from it would be incorporated in the Burroughs D210 computer.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1959
- maker: Burroughs Manufacturing Corporation
- Object Name: Mainframe Component
- Object Name: mainframe computer component
- Physical Description: metal (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 13 in x 5 3/4 in; 33.02 cm x 14.605 cm
- ID Number: 1987.0822.03
- accession number: 1987.0822
- catalog number: 326815
- catalog number: 1987.0822.03
- Credit Line: Gift of Burroughs Corporation
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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