General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

1

Total Parts

14

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

METAL CASING, PATCH PANEL, PARTS/ SYNTHETIC CONTROLS & PARTS/ METAL ACCESSORY COMPONENT RACK WITH 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

102.5 cm

Width

152.5 cm

Height

195.0 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

952.5

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Computing Technology

Category

Analog computing devices

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Electronic

Country

United States of America

State/Province

New Jersey

City

Long Branch

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Ontario

Period

1960-1973

Canada

THIS WAS THE FIRST COMPUTER INSTALLED AT THE NUCLEAR POWER PLANT DIVISION OF ATOMIC ENERGY OF CANADA LTD., A CANADIAN GOVERNMENT CORPORATION.

Function

A COMPUTING DEVICE IN WHICH CONTINUOUS PHYSICAL VARIABLES SUCH AS THE MAGNITUDE OF VOLTAGES REPRESENTS DATA & ARE USED TO SOLVE PROBLEMS & PERFORM CALCULATIONS. THIS EXAMPLE WAS USED BY A NUCLEAR ENERGY ORGANIZATION & WAS DESIGNED TO HANDLE ENGINEERING PROBLEMS.

Technical

THE PACE 231R WAS A GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTER CAPABLE OF ADDING, SUBTRACTING, INVERTING, DIFFERENTIATING, MULTIPLYING, DIVIDING, & GENERATING ARBITRARY FUNCTIONS. IT CONTAINS A STABILIZED DC OPERATION AMPLIFIER WHICH ENABLES IT TO PERFORM THE 1ST 5 OF THE ABOVE FUNCTIONS. IT WAS PROGRAMMED VIA A REMOVABLE PATCH PANEL USING PATCH CORDS & BOTTLE PLUGS.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

NO MFR'S INFO. VISIBLE (BACK OF UNIT IS INACCESSIBLE)/ BLACK LETTERING ON PATCH PANEL/ WHITE LETTERING ON COMPONENT CASINGS/ DECALS READING 'AECL/ TORONTO/ 2891' & 'AECL/ TORONTO/ 6727'/ PLATE ON FRONT OF ACCESSORY RACK READS 'ELECTRONIC/ ASSOCIATESINC.' & 'PACE', WITH WHITE LETTERING ON COMPONENT CASINGS

Missing

UNKNOWN

Finish

TEXTURED LIGHT & MEDIUM GREY PAINTED CASING/ GREY ENAMEL PAINTED FRONT COMPONENT CASINGS/ MULTICOLOURED PATCH PANEL/ PLATED & METALLIC CONTROLS/ MULTICOLOURED SYNTHETIC CONTROLS/ RACK HAS LIGHT GREY TEXTURED FINISH WITH MEDIUM GREY ENAMEL COMPONENT FRONT CASINGS, MULTICOLOURED SYNTHETIC, PLATED, & METALLIC CONTROLS

Decoration

N/A