General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

1

Total Parts

5

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

METAL CASING & WORKING PARTS; SYNTHETIC WORKING PARTS/ RUBBER? WHEELS

Dimensions

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

Length

125.0 cm

Width

127.5 cm

Height

173.5 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

IT&T

Country

United States of America

State/Province

New Jersey

City

Paramus

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Unknown

Period

C. 1962+

Canada

THIS WAS ONE OF FIRST COMPUTERS OF ITS TYPE OPERATING IN CANADA, USED BY MAJOR CANADIAN MFR., ALCAN ALUMINUM. AFTER IT WAS RETURNED TO DIGITAL EQUIPMENT OF CANADA, IT WAS DONATED TO NMSTC. (T.J. PAUL, CURATOR OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY, MARCH 1983)

Function

PRIMARY COMPONENT OF COMPUTER, CONTAINING ARITHMETIC LOGIC UNIT, CONTROL UNIT, & MEMORY, & USED TO INTERPRET & EXECUTE INSTRUCTIONS IN ORDER TO PROCESS RELEVANT DATA AS REQUIRED. IN MESSAGE MODE IT SERVED AS AUTOMATIC MESSAGE SWITCHING & CONTROL SYSTEM IN DATA COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK; IN DATA MODE IT WAS ORDINARY CPU.

Technical

FIXED WORD LENGTH, BINARY, SINGLE ADDRESS SEQUENTIAL PROCESSOR WITH INTERNAL MEMORY CAPACITY OF 65,536 WORDS (REF. 1)./ COMPUTER CONTAINS PDP-1 PROCESSOR APPARENTLY USED TO CONTROL TANDEM ACCELERATOR. THIS WAS LIKELY THE SECOND DEC PDP-1 MADE IN CANADA, IN LATE 1963 (REF. 3).

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

BLACK LETTERING ON CONTROL PANEL, WHITE LETTERING ON TYPEWRITER KEYS/ PLATE ON TYPEWRITER READS "Soroban [SCRIPT]/ ENGINEERING, INC./ MELBOURNE, FLORIDA"

Missing

UNKNOWN

Finish

TEXTURED MEDIUM BLUE PAINTED CASING PANELS, BRUSHED METAL FRAMES, TEXTURED WHITE PAINTED CASING END PANELS/ GLOSSY WHITE PAINTED CONTROL PANELS WITH WHITE LIGHTS, METALLIC RED-TIPPED SWITCHES; TEXTURED DARK BLUE PAINTED PANELS ON FRONT; WHITE TABLE TOP WITH METALLIC EDGING; TEXTURED MEDIUM BLUE PAINTED TYPEWRITER CASING WITH TEXTURED DARK BLUE PAINTED KEY BOARD PANEL, GREY KEYS & PARTS, METALLIC PARTS, BLACK PLATEN

Decoration

N/A