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- OBJECT TYPE
- GENERAL PURPOSE
- DATE
- 1959
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1974.0017.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Electronic Associates Inc.
- MODEL
- PACE/ 231R
- LOCATION
- Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
More Information
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
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