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- OBJECT TYPE
- memory core/magnetic
- DATE
- 1969
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1978.1055.002
- MANUFACTURER
- Sperry Rand Corp.
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 2
- Total Parts
- 3
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Unknown
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- N/A
- Width
- N/A
- Height
- N/A
- 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
- Sperry
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- AFTER 1968 TO BEFORE 1978
- Canada
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EQUIPMENT USED BY COMPUTEL, THE FIRST CANADIAN COMPUTER UTILITY TO ISSUE SHARES AS A PUBLIC COMPANY, IN 1967. IT PROVIDED CLIENTS WITH COMPUTING POWER OVER-THE-COUNTER OR BY TELEPHONE LINK. IT EXPANDED INTO ANATION-WIDE COMPUTER SERVICE NETWORK & WAS BOUGHT IN 1982 BY CANADA SYSTEMS GROUP. - Function
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A PERIPHERAL DATA STORAGE DEVICE USED FOR MASS STORAGE OF COMPUTER DATA AS MAGNETIZED AREAS ON CIRCULAR TRACKS ON THE POLISHED METAL SURFACE OF A DRUM. - Technical
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DEVELOPED IN THE EARLY 1950'S, THE MAGNETIC DRUM PROVIDED RANDOM-ACCESS MASS-STORAGE OF DATA, IT WAS SO SLOW THAT IT WAS RARELY USED FOR INTERNAL MEMORY BUT MORE OFTEN AS PERIPHERAL STORAGE. THIS LATE 1960'S UNIT WAS USED, IN CONJUNCTION WITH A CONTROLLER, WITH A NUMBER OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- N/A
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- Unknown
- Decoration
- N/A
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Sperry Rand Corp., Drum, circa 1969, Artifact no. 1978.1055, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/item/1978.1055.002/
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