General Information

Serial #

F2096 B 5

Part Number

4

Total Parts

14

AKA

tape cartridge accessor

Patents

N/A

General Description

metal body, base, parts/ synthetic casings and parts/ glass camera optics

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

141.0 cm

Width

102.0 cm

Height

170.0 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

Fanuc

Country

Japan

State/Province

Unknown

City

Unknown

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Ontario

Period

this example: 1996-2005

Canada

Unknown

Function

Part of an automated tape cartridge library, in which the retrieval, storage and control of data tape cartridges is carried out by a robotic handler, permitting the mounting and demounting of the cartridges on tape drives without operator intervention. This artifact is the cartridge handling robot which moves the cartridges to and from the related tape drives, input/output stations and storage racks within the system.

Technical

The IBM 3495 Tape Library Dataserver is an automated tape library that consists of one to four IBM 3490 Magnetic Tape Drive Subsystems, a Library Manager computer, a storage enclosure, and a tape cartridge accessor. The accessor incorporates a combination of IBM and OEM robotics and vision systems with application programs and special fixtures that provide automatic teaching and updating for up to 18,000 cell locations in the library. Command queueing allows continuous robotic motion, removing the performance penalty of communications with the Library Manager computer. The application program written for the vision system compensates for label tilt and spatial translation. A neural network with special filters ensures the quality of the labels read (Ref.1).

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

black lettering on label reads 'FANUC Robotics/ 2000 SOUTH ADAMS RD. AUBURN HILLS, MI 48236/ MADE IN U.S.A. MODEL S-10-RS-AAUCT/ ROBOTIC SYSTEM/ PER. DWG. EE-1043-005 REV D/ SERIAL NO. F20296 B 5'/ black lettering on second label reads 'F-20296/ ROBOT S - MODEL - 10/ TYPE A05B-1204-B202/ NO R94X35207/ DATE 1994 10/ FANUC LTD. MADE IN JAPAN'

Missing

robot: unknown/ the cartridge accessor controller, a cabinet which stood beside the tape drives and controller was not received

Finish

body painted glossy yellow/ base and parts painted glossy black/ black & grey cable coverings/ black & green synthetic parts/ colourless transparent camera optics with black synthetic lens cap/ plated parts

Decoration

N/A