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
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 7
- Total Parts
- 9
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Unknown
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- N/A
- Width
- N/A
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Computing Technology
- Category
- Digital peripheral devices
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Digital
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Massachusetts
- City
- Maynard
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- 1970-1980
- Canada
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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
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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. - Area Notes
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Unknown
Details
- Markings
- N/A
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- Unknown
- Decoration
- N/A
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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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