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- OBJECT TYPE
- INTEGRATED CIRCUIT/DISK/64K
- DATE
- 1976
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1988.1321.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Data General Corp.
- MODEL
- ECLIPSE S/200
- LOCATION
- Southboro, Massachusetts, United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 2
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- METAL CABINETS, FRONT PANELS, CHASSIS & PARTS. SYNTHETIC TAPE DRIVE UNIT DOOR, COMPUTER CASING FRONTS, CONTROLS & PARTS. 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
- 112.0 cm
- Width
- 87.0 cm
- Height
- 178.2 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Medical Technology
- Category
- Radiology
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Data
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Massachusetts
- City
- Southboro
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Quebec
- Period
- THIS TYPE OF COMPUTER USEDC.1976 +. THIS COMPUTER PROBABLY USED C. 1976- C.1985.
- Canada
-
USED WITH CT-SCANNER FOR INVESTIGATION & DIAGNOSIS OF A WIDE VARIETY OF BRAIN DISEASES. MINICOMPUTER CALCULATED THE ABSORPTION VALUES OF THE TISSUE SCANNED: THE PROCESSED PICTURE DATA WAS THEN TRANSFERRED TO THE SYSTEM DISK STORE IN ANALOGUE FORM. MONTREAL NEURO INST WAS FIRST CANADIAN HOSPITAL TO INSTALL CT SCANNER. - Function
-
A PROGRAMMABLE MACHINE THAT ACCEPTS & PROCESSES DATA, WITH A MAGNETIC DISK MEMORY, AND MAGNETIC TAPE UNIT. - Technical
-
ECLIPSE WAS PRODUCT OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT MAKERS OF MINICOMPUTERS IN 1970S, MADE POSSIBLE BY DEVELOPMENT OF MICROCHIPS. ECLIPSE WAS DATA GEN'S 2ND MAJOR PRODUCT: GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTER WITH VARIETY OF COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS. STANDARD 64K MEMORY EXPANDS TO 256K WITH MAP FEATURE (MEMORY ADDRESS PROGRAMME). - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- METAL PLATE ON EACH CABINET & ON TAPE DRIVE DOOR READS IN BLACK " EMI SCANNER ". BLUE LETTERING ACROSS TOP FRONT OF EACH CABINET READS " DATA GENERAL ECLIPSE S/200 " & ON EACH COMPUTER CASING FRONT " ECLIPSE S/200 " & " DATA GENERAL ECLIPSE ". ALL CONTROLS, ETC. LABELLED. DECAL APPLIED TO UPPER RIGHT CORNER OF UNIT BACK READS: " EMI Hayes Midds, England/ Unit Computer Rack/ Serial No. H.118/ Mod Rec 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12/ Model TG 1246-D1301/A / Voltage 115 V 60 Hz/ Current 13A/ Made in United Kingdom"./ Various components, racks, etc. inside cabinet bear mfr, model designations, etc./ Mfrs include Tally Corp., Kent England; Tally Ltd., Ready Berkshire, England; EMI Hayes Middlesex, England; and Data General Corp., Southboro Ma, USA./ Data General plate includes following info.: " SWITCHED OUTLET RATING/ VOLTS 120 CYCLE 60/ AMPS 2 PHASE 1/ FUSE/ TYPE FB/ AMPS 15/ DEVICE RATING/ CYCLE 60 VOLTS 120/ PHASE 1 AMPS 10/ ECLIPSE (TM) 8459/ SERIAL NO. SO#3450-17-106/ PATENTS PENDING/ DATA GENERAL CORPORATION/ SOUTHBORO, MASSACHUSETTS 01772 ". Identical plate on second unit, save: " ... ECLIPSE (TM) 8461/ SERIAL NO. SO#7460-187-407 ".
- Missing
- UNKNOWN.
- Finish
- TEXTURED MEDIUM-BLUE ENAMEL PAINTED CABINETS; BUFF COLOURED PEBBLE-TEXTURED SIDE PANELS. TEXTURED DARK-BLUE ENAMEL PAINTED FRONT PANELS WITH BUFF EDGING. BUFF, BLACK & BLUE COMPUTER CASING FRONTS, WITH MEDIUM BLUE SWITCHES. " SMOKED " SYNTHETIC TAPE DRIVE DOOR. MULTICOLOURED SYNTHETIC CONTROLS. MULTICOLOURED SYNTHETIC & METALLIC PARTS.
- Decoration
- N/A
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Data General Corp., Computer, circa 1976, Artifact no. 1988.1321, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/item/1988.1321.001/
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