Console, display
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- OBJECT TYPE
- AUXILIARY DIGITAL DISPLAY
- DATE
- 1960
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1983.0017.001
- 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, TABLE, WORKING PARTS/ SYNTHETIC CONTROLS, LIGHTS, WORKING PARTS/ GLASS SCREEN COVER
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 55.5 cm
- Width
- 155.5 cm
- Height
- 23.5 cm
- 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
- IBM
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- THE 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
-
ELEMENT OF 'DISPLAY SYSTEM' OF LARGE MAIN FRAME MILITARY COMPUTER, WHICH DISPLAYED DATA IN DIGITAL FORM. - Technical
-
32 BIT SAGE AN/FSQ7 COMPUTER WAS DEVELOPED FROM MIT'S WHIRLWIND, FIRST REAL-TIME DIGITAL COMPUTER. SAGE WAS FIRST PRODUCTION MODEL COMPUTER WITH DUPLEXED COMPUTER OPERATION, MAGNETIC (FERRITE) CORE MEMORY, LARGE-SCALE COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK INCLUDING HIGH-SPEED MODEMS; CRT DISPLAYS & LIGHT GUNS, OTHER INNOVATIONS. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- WHITE LETTERING ON FRONT READING "INTERCEPT/ TECHNICIAN 2-5/ W53/ 933"/ YELLOW PLASTIC COVERED LIST OF TELEPHONE NOS. AFFIXED TO UNIT
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- TEXTURED LIGHT GREY PAINTED CASING ON BLACK BASE/ GLOSSY DARK GREY PAINTED FRONT PANELS & TABLE TOP/ GREY BUTTONS/ WHITE LIGHTS/ COLOURLESS TRANSPARENT GLASS
- Decoration
- N/A
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International Business Machines Corp., Console, display, circa 1960, Artifact no. 1983.0017, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1983.0017.001/
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