Tape, data processing

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OBJECT TYPE: MAGNETIC
DATE: Unknown
ARTIFACT NUMBER: 1980.0474.007

MANUFACTURER: Digital Equipment Corp.
MODEL: Unknown
LOCATION: Maynard, Massachusetts, United States of America

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Serial #: N/A
Part Number: 7
Total Parts: 9
AKA: N/A
Patents: N/A
General Description: Unknown

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Lexicon

Group: Computing Technology
Category: Digital peripheral devices
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Manufacturer

AKA: Digital
Country: United States of America
State/Province: Massachusetts
City: Maynard

Context

Country: Canada
State/Province: Ontario
Period: 1970-1980
Canada: USED AT A CANADIAN SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
Function: A storage medium used to store large quantities of computer data, consisting of a plastic tape coated with a magnetic material on which information is stored in the form of magnetized spots.
Technical: GENERAL ELECTRIC PRODUCED 2ND & 3RD GENERATION COMPUTERS FROM THE LATE 1950'S UNTIL 1970, WHEN ITS COMPUTER BUSINESS WAS SOLD TO HONEYWELL. IN THE LATE 1960'S, GE COMPUTER PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT WAS SCATTERED ACROSS 5COUNTRIES. THIS COMPUTER WAS MADE BY OLIVETTI IN ITALY AS THE GE115. THE 100 SERIES WAS ABANDONED IN 1966, ONE OF SEVERAL PROJECTS ABANDONED BY GE.
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Digital Equipment Corp., Tape, data processing, Unknown Date, Artifact no. 1980.0474, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1980.0474.007/

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