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- OBJECT TYPE
- FERRITE/VACUUM TUBE/RANDOM ACCESS
- DATE
- 1960
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1983.0010.001
- MANUFACTURER
- International Business Machines Corp.
- MODEL
- SAGE AN-FSQ-7
- LOCATION
- Unknown
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- METAL CASING WITH 4 SYNTHETIC WINDOW PANELS/ METAL, METAL ALLOY, SYNTHETIC WORKING PARTS/ CORE COMPOSED OF A MIXTURE OF FERRIC & MANGANESE OXIDE POWDERS
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 119.5 cm
- Width
- 121.5 cm
- Height
- 224.5 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
- IBM
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- AN/FSQ-7 COMPUTER SYSTEM WAS OPERATIONAL FROM OCT. 1963 TO JUNE 15, 1983
- Canada
-
SAGE WAS COMPUTERIZED AIR DEFENSE SYSTEM WHICH PROTECTED U.S. & CANADA FROM AIR ATTACK. IT CONSISTED OF NUMBER OF RADAR STATIONS & COMMAND CENTRES ACROSS CONTINENT; THIS EQUIPMENT IS FROM SAGE CENTRE OF 22ND NORAD REGION, AT CFB NORTH BAY, ONT. THIS WAS ONLY NON-AMERICAN SAGE CENTRE & ONLY "HARDENED" (UNDERGROUND) SITE. - Function
-
COMPONENT OF LARGE MAIN-FRAME MILITARY COMPUTER WHICH PROVIDED SEMI-PERMANENT STORAGE FOR ALL INFORMATION (INCLUDING OPERATING SYSTEM, PROGRAMS, RAW & PROCESSED DATA) REQUIRED FOR OR RESULTING FROM OPERATION OF COMPUTER. IN CORE MEMORY, DATA IS STORED ON TINY MAGNETIZED RINGS SUSPENDED IN GRID OF CURRENT CARRYING WIRES. - Technical
-
32 BIT AN/FSQ7 COMPUTER WAS DEVELOPED FROM MIT'S WHIRLWIND, FIRST REAL-TIME DIGITAL COMPUTER. FERRITE CORE MEMORY DEVELOPED FOR WHIRLWIND & AT IBM WAS USED IN SAGE COMPUTER & SOON AFTER IN OTHER COMPUTERS. SAGE WAS ALSO FIRST PRODUCTION MODEL COMPUTER WITH BUILT-IN-INTERACTIVE GRAPHICS, HIGH SPEED MODEMS, & OTHER INNOVATIONS. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- NONE
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- TEXTURED LIGHT GREY PAINTED CASING/ BRUSHED METAL TRIM/ BLACK PAINTED WINDOW FRAMES/ GREY TINTED WINDOW PANELS/ BLACK BASE/ MULTICOLOURED SYNTHETIC
- Decoration
- N/A
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International Business Machines Corp., Memory, core, circa 1960, Artifact no. 1983.0010, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1983.0010.001/
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