Tape, paper
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- OBJECT TYPE
- perforated
- DATE
- 1963
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1966.0193.003
- MANUFACTURER
- DRTE
- MODEL
- DRTE DIRTY GERTIE
- LOCATION
- Unknown
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 3
- Total Parts
- 4
- AKA
- Punched tape
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Perforated computer tape made of paper.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 333.2 cm
- Width
- 2.5 cm
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Printing
- Category
- Typesetting
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Unknown
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
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POSSIBLY FIRST TRANSISTORIZED COMPUTER DESIGNED & BUILT IN CANADA. EXPERTISE IN TRANSISTOR TECHNOLOGY IT GENERATED LATER ENABLED DEVELOPMENT OF RELIABLE CIRCUITRY FOR CANADIAN SATELLITES. IT WAS USED FOR COMPUTING AT DRTE & FOR PROCESSING DATA FROM OTHER CANADIAN SCIENTIFIC ENDEAVOURS SUCH AS ALOUETTE, CANADA'S FIRST SATELLITE, & AURORA EXPERIMENTS AT PRINCE ALBERT RADAR LAB - Function
-
Punched tape (also known as perforated tape) was used as a form of data storage consisting of a long strip of paper through which small holes were punched. This particular strip was a test strip - Technical
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ONE-OF-A-KIND COMPUTER, NEVER PRODUCED COMMERCIALLY. IT WAS INNOVATIVE FOR ITS TIME, WITH SEVERAL NOVEL CONCEPTS SUCH AS NEW FORM OF TRANSISTORIZED FLIP-FLOP (P-N-P-N) CIRCUITRY, HARDWARE INSTEAD OF SOFTWARE DECIMAL-TO-BINARY & BINARY-TO-DECIMAL (DBBD) CONVERTER, & UNIQUE CORE MEMORY. SEVERAL PATENTS WERE TAKEN OUT BY CANADIAN GOV'T (SEE PATENTS) - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- On one extremity in pencil reads "Card test 2"/ Approximately at halfway point of tape in pencil reads "3"/ Close to the other end of the tape in pencil reads "4"
- Missing
- Appears complete
- Finish
- Long yellowed punched paper test strip
- Decoration
- N/A
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DRTE, Tape, paper, circa 1963, Artifact no. 1966.0193, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1966.0193.003/
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