Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Philco Corp.
- Summary
- This is a pre-production silicon integrated circuit of the type used in the Apollo Guidance "Block II" computers, installed on the Apoll Command and Lunar Modules. The circuits were designed by the Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation of Mountain View, California, and manufactured by Phbilco, at their Landsdale, Pennsylvania plant. Each computer used several thousand of these chips.
- Credit Line
- Gift of David Chester
- Inventory Number
- A20170004000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- EQUIPMENT-Electronics
- Materials
- Silicon
- Gold
- Epoxy
- Plastic
- Ink
- Dimensions
- Overall (Larger case): 5.7 × 5.1 × 2.2cm (2 1/4 × 2 × 7/8 in.)
- Overall (Smaller case): 3.5 × 2.9 × 1cm (1 3/8 × 1 1/8 × 3/8 in.)
- Overall (Rectangular circuits): 1.9 × 0.6 × 0.2cm (3/4 × 1/4 × 1/16 in.)
- Overall (Larger circuit): 2.9 × 2.5 × 0.2cm (1 1/8 × 1 × 1/16 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_A20170004000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9014defb6-9abf-4e01-85dd-f91ea77b5dd0
