Renseignements généraux

Nº de série

9113

Nº de partie

1

Nombre total de parties

1

Ou

S/O

Brevets

S/O

Description générale

Metal casing with synthetic front/ Synthetic controls, cable coverings, parts/ Metal interior casings and parts/ Rubber feet

Dimensions

Remarque : Cette information reflète la taille générale pour l’entreposage et ne représente pas nécessairement les véritables dimensions de l’objet.

Longueur

38,4 cm

Largeur

33,4 cm

Hauteur

S/O

Épaisseur

15,0 cm

Poids

S/O

Diamètre

S/O

Volume

S/O

Lexique

Groupe

Technologie informatique

Catégorie

Dispositifs numériques

Sous-catégorie

S/O

Fabricant

Ou

Intertechnology

Pays

Canada

État/province

Ontario

Ville

Don Mills

Contexte

Pays

Canada

État/province

Ontario

Période

1991+

Canada

A piece of equipment used at the David Dunlap Observatory at the University of Toronto, one of Canada's most important astronomical observatories. The David Dunlap Observatory opened in 1935 as the result of a bequest from the wife of David Dunlap. The telescope was a 74 inch (188 cm) reflector built by Grubb Parsons of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in England. The 74 inch was then the largest telescope in Canada (surpassing the 72 inch telescope of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria) and became the second largest in the world after the 100 inch Hooker Telescope of the Mt. Wilson Observatory outside Los Angeles. DDO's reputation grew and following WWII, it began to graduate most of the astronomers produced in Canada with University of Western Ontario far behind. Beginning in the 1960s a number of other astronomy departments were created but UofT/DDO held its place, a position it probably still holds. The DDO had a good technical staff which gave them an advantage and, with most of the 1940s to early 1970s top astronomers coming from UofT, grants from NRC and then ENSERC were almost guaranteed and allowed UofT's top astronomers -- Hogg, van den Berg, Fernie, Bolton, Kamper, Martin, etc. to acquire or build some of the best equipment available in university observatories. For optical observatories, only the DAO had technical staff and budgets that surpassed those of DDO. In 2007, citing increasing light pollution, the University of Toronto announced plans to sell the Observatory property. In June 2008, it was sold to Corsica Development Inc., a subsidiary of Metrus Development Inc. and the Observatory was closed. In 2009 the Observatory buildings and 80% of the site were designated a cultural heritage landscape. Also in 2009 Corsica and the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Toronto Centre announced an agreement allowing the RASC to provide public education and outreach programs at the observatory, and to operate the 188 cm telescope.

Fonction

A random-access-memory device for a digital computer, used to store instructions and data. This is an external type, a stand-alone hard drive that connects to the computer via a cable.

Technique

A data storage device made in the 1980s and used with an astronomical measuring engine, the Perkin-Elmer PDS machine. This was a device for digitally measuring photographs, used to measure both stellar and galactic spectra as well as direct images of the sky taken with the DDOs 74 inch telescope and plates acquired by Sidney Van de Burgh at the 48 inch Mt. Palomar Schmidt telescope.

Notes sur la région

Inconnu

Détails

Marques

Raised metallic lettering on front reads ‘INTERTECHNOLOGY/ The Performance Leader’/ Label on underside reads ‘MODEL INT 3002/ RATING 115v 60hz/ 1 amp 1 phase/ DATE OF MFG 05/09/91/ SERIAL 9113/ ORDER 9229/ INTERTECHNOLOGY/ INC./ DON MILLS, ONTARIO – CANADA’/ Yellow labels on front read ‘E’ and ‘F’/ Label on Seagate hard drive reads ‘[logo] Seagate/ Seagate Technology, Inc./ OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA/ MODEL NUMBER *94601-12G*/ PART NUMBER *77709450*/ MODEL NUMBER *ST41200N*/ PART NUMBER *939001-002*’, ‘SERIAL NUMBER *006266*/ LOT NUMBER *0-01-9042-5*/ ONE OR MORE PATENTS MAY APPLY [see Patents for numbers dating from 1980 to 1989]’ and ‘MADE IN USA’/ Labels on Fujitsu hard drive read ‘MODEL M2263SA/ PART NO. B03B-4945-B613A#NB/ FUJITSU LIMITED MADE IN JAPAN’ and ‘PART NO. B03B-4945-B613A#NB/ SER. NO. B022437 DATE 1991-01/ RATING +12V. 2.5A/ +5V. 1.6A’

Manque

Appears complete

Fini

Textured black synthetic front in textured black painted frame/ White button on front, black switch on back/ Textured buff painted casing sides and top; black painted back/ Black and buff coverings on cables/ Metallic parts/ Black feet

Décoration

S/O