Computer, DF224, With Coprocessor
Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Fairchild Space & Defense Systems
- Other
- Janet E. McClintock
- Manufacturer
- Rockwell International
- Summary
- This general purpose digital computer was the original computer used to control the Hubble Space Telescope. It was replaced by a more powerful computer during a Servicing Mission and returned to Earth in 1999.
- NASA transferred this to the Museum in 2012.
- Credit Line
- Transferred from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Inventory Number
- A20130014000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- INSTRUMENTS-Computers, General Purpose
- Materials
- Aluminum Alloy
- Steel
- Possible Cadmium Plating or Anodized Coating
- Plastic
- Paint
- Adhesive
- Paper
- Ink
- Synthetic Rubber
- Phenolic Resin
- Copper Alloy
- Velcro
- Dimensions
- 3-D (Approximate): 66 × 59.7 × 48.3cm (26 in. × 23 1/2 in. × 19 in.)
- Storage (Rehoused on an aluminum pallet): 153 × 122.6 × 132.1cm, 170.1kg (60 1/4 × 48 1/4 × 52 in., 375lb.)
- 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_A20130014000
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9f8d91b36-d9a1-46f6-8985-fca6a3a6d769
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