Central processing unit
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- OBJECT TYPE
- TRANSISTOR
- DATE
- 1977
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1984.0763.001
- MANUFACTURER
- IBM Canada Ltd..
- MODEL
- SYSTEM 3/ 5410
- LOCATION
- Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- FERROUS METAL CASING/ SYNTHETIC CONTROL PANEL, CONTROLS, & PARTS/ METAL & SYNTHETIC WORKING PARTS
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 119.4 cm
- Width
- 61.2 cm
- Height
- 152.0 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
- Canada
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- 1977-1984
- Canada
-
PART OF COMPUTER SYSTEM USED BY CANADIAN ORGANIZATION IN CARRYING OUT ITS ACTIVITIES & PROCEDURES. - Function
-
PROGRAMMABLE MACHINE THAT ACCEPTS & PROCESSES COMPUTER DATA. CPU IS PRIMARY COMPONENT OF COMPUTER, CONTAINING ARITHMETIC LOGIC UNIT, CONTROL UNIT, & SMALL AMOUNT OF MEMORY, & USED TO INTERPRET & EXECUTE INSTRUCTIONS IN ORDER TO PROCESS RELEVANT DATA AS REQUIRED. - Technical
-
IN 1969 IBMINTRODUCED SYSTEM 3 GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTER & 5495 DATA RECORDER (860817) WHICH USED 96 COLUMN CARD RATHER THAN OLD 80 COLUMN CARD. ALTHOUGH SMALLER, FORMER COULD RECORD UP TO 20% MORE DATA. THIS WAS LAST MAJOR INTRODUCTION OF PUNCHED CARD-BASED EQUIPMENT SINCE BY THIS TIME, USE OF PUNCHED CARDS WAS ALREADY IN DECLINE. BY LATE 1970S, SYSTEM 3 WAS MARKETED WITH IBM 1442 80 COLUMN CARD READ PUNCH (840767). - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- BLACK LETTERING ON FRONT READING "IBM System 3"/ BLACK, WHITE, & GREY LABELS READING "IBM 5410/ Processing Unit"/ BLACK & WHITE LETTERING FOR CONTROL FUNCTIONS.
- Missing
- UNKNOWN
- Finish
- CASING PAINTED MEDIUM BLUE, WHITE, & GREY/ GLOSSY BLACK PAINTED & PLATED PARTS/ BLACK CONTROL PANEL/ MULTICOLOURED & COLOURLESS TRANSPARENT CONTROLS/ INTERIOR CASINGS PAINTED BLACK
- Decoration
- N/A
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IBM Canada Ltd.., Central processing unit, circa 1977, Artifact no. 1984.0763, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1984.0763.001/
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