General Information

Serial #

1244A01941

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

METAL & SYNTHETIC CASING/ SYNTHETIC CONTROL BUTTONS ON FRONT/ METAL & SYNTHETIC WORKING PARTS

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

65.5 cm

Width

44.2 cm

Height

30.5 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Computing Technology

Category

Digital computing devices

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Hewlett Packard

Country

United States of America

State/Province

California

City

Cupertino

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Unknown

Period

1970'S-1980'S

Canada

AMERICANMADE COMPUTER USED WITH CANADIAN PRODUCED POSITION LOCATING SYSTEM BY GEODETIC SURVEY OF CANADIAN DEPT. OF ENERGY, MINES, & RESOURCES. THIS SYSTEM ENABLED SURVEY OF CANADIAN SUBARCTIC WITHOUT USING MANUAL METHODS SUCH AS TRIANGULATION CHAINS.

Function

PROGRAMMABLE MACHINE WHICH ACCEPTS & PROCESSES DATA. THIS EXAMPLE PROCESSED DATA IN FORM OF MEASUREMENTS OF DOPPLER SHIFT OF ORBITING SATELLITE MEASURED BY SURVEYORS ON GROUND; COMPUTER TRANSLATED MEASUREMENTS INTO GEOGRAPHIC POSITIONS

Technical

1970'S MINICOMPUTER, ONE OF SEVERAL MODELS MADE BY HEWLETT-PACKARD. IT WAS USED WITH EARLY SATELLITE-BASED LOCATING SYSTEM USED FOR NAVIGATION, SURVEYING ETC. LATTER MADE USE OF DOPPLER EFFECT & WAS PRECURSOR TO 1980S-1990S GPS TECHNOLOGY.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

WHITE LETTERING ON FRONT READS '2100A COMPUTER/ HEWLETT-PACKARD'/ LABELS ON BACK READ 'HEWLETT-PACKARD/ MODEL 2100A/ S/N 1244A0194/ MADE IN U.S.A.', 'HEWLETT-PACKARD/ OPTION 008/ MADE IN U.S.A.', 'HEWLETT-PACKARD USA/ SYS# 1513F'/ LABEL ON FRONT READS 'EMR INVENTORY CONTROL/ EMR CONTROLE DES STOCKS/ R.C./C.R. 633 024588/ EQ CODE D'EQUIPE 7021-895-8174'

Missing

APPEARS COMPLETE

Finish

TEXTURED GREY SYNTHETIC CASING SIDES & TOP/ LIGHT GREY TEXTURED FINISH ON METAL FRONT PANEL, WITH MEDIUM & DARK GREY SYNTHETIC PANELS, LATTER CONTAINING WHITE CONTROL BUTTONS/ PLATED KEY & LOCK/ METALLIC PARTS/ MULTICOLOURED SYNTHETIC WORKING PARTS

Decoration

WHITE, BLUE, & BLACK HP LOGO PLATE ON FRONT