Rack, interface
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- OBJECT TYPE
- N/A
- DATE
- 1978–1980
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2005.0140.004
- MANUFACTURER
- Semco Instruments Co. Ltd.
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- 111036
- Part Number
- 4
- Total Parts
- 9
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Grey-green metal rack casing; individual metal interface elements have grey fronts; synthetic knobs, switches, etc.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 38.5 cm
- Width
- 30.2 cm
- Height
- 23.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Chemistry
- Category
- Laboratory equipment
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Semco
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- City
- Ottawa
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- Possibly used c. 1978-80 until 1989.
- Canada
-
Component of scanning electron microscope designed at Communication Research Centre in Ottawa and built by SEMCO at NRC's Montreal Rd. campus under an industry/ government partnership- one of the first such partnerships. The company lasted approx. 4-5 years, but collapsed due to poor management. It was taken over successively by other companies. [Ref. 1] - Function
-
Houses interface elements of electron microscope system. - Technical
-
Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- All controls, etc. labelled. Decal applied inside rack housing reads "PART NO. 348160-9034/ MODEL [blank] SERIAL NO. 111036/ Accessory Rack Slave/ SEMCO INSTRUMENTS CO. LTD./ OTTAWA, ONTARIO, CANADA". Each of 3 elements marked "SEMCO" and "nanolab". Front panel of each marked (l to r] "SCAN/ ROTATE/ UNIT", "VIDEO INTERFACE", and "DIGITAL SCAN GENERATOR", respectively.
- Missing
- Unknown: rack does not appear full.
- Finish
- Grey-green metal rack casing; individual metal interface elements have grey fronts; synthetic knobs, switches, etc.
- Decoration
- N/A
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Semco Instruments Co. Ltd., Rack, interface, circa 1978–1980, Artifact no. 2005.0140, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2005.0140.004/
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