Keyboard, Manual Data, Gemini
Object Details
- Manufacturer
- IBM Corporation
- Summary
- The Manual Data Keyboard (MDK), manufactured by IBM, consists of a ten-digit keypad. Together with the Manual Data Readout device, it was used to input numbers into the Gemini spacecraft on-board computer. Numbers entered via this unit would select memory addresses in the computer, as well as enter actual numerical data. What the numbers signified was determined by settings on the MDR.
- McDonnell Douglas gave this MDK to the Museum in 1972.
- Credit Line
- Gift of the McDonnell Douglas Corporation
- Inventory Number
- A19721015000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- INSTRUMENTS-Computers, General Purpose
- Materials
- Aluminum
- Steel
- Copper Alloy
- Coating
- Synthetic
- Magnesium
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 15.9 × 7.6 × 7.6cm (6 1/4 × 3 × 3 in.)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19721015000
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9f1932e75-166c-42c6-bef8-5bfad5abbd41
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