Object Details
- Description
- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Burroughs Manufacturing Corporation
- date made
- 1959
- Credit Line
- Gift of Burroughs Corporation
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 13 in x 5 3/4 in; 33.02 cm x 14.605 cm
- Object Name
- Mainframe Component
- mainframe computer component
