Object Details
- IBM
- Description
- This is a wooden plexiglass and paper model of an IBM 1401 computer system. Model pieces include:
- 1. The IBM 1401 central processing unit with control panel.
- 2. A disc storage unit.
- 3. Dual IBM 729 magnetic tape unit (two tape drives - possibly two units)
- 4. A shorter IBM 7330 magnetic tape unit with one tape drive
- 5. A yet shorter tape unit (for paper tape? might be IBM 1101)
- 6. IBM 1406 added memory
- 7. an IBM 1402 card read-punch
- 8. an IBM 1403 printer with paper.
- Dimensions given are for system arranged compactly.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Tim Bergin
- ca 1959
- ID Number
- 2013.0129.01
- accession number
- 2013.0129
- catalog number
- 2013.0129.01
- Object Name
- mainframe computer model
- Measurements
- overall: 6 in x 9 1/2 in x 11 in; 15.24 cm x 24.13 cm x 27.94 cm
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Computers & Business Machines
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1446199
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-76f0-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
