General Information

Serial #

L 1530

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

SYNTHETIC CASING & BUTTONS/ PAPER BUTTON LABELS

Dimensions

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

Length

30.2 cm

Width

44.6 cm

Height

18.0 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Mathematics

Category

Calculating devices

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Wang

Country

United States of America

State/Province

Massachusetts

City

Tewksbury

Context

Country

Unknown

State/Province

Unknown

Period

Unknown

Canada

Presumably used in a federal government department since it was purchased form CADC

Function

PERFORMS ARITHMETICAL & ALGEBRAIC CALCULATIONS INCLUDING ADDITION, SUBTRACTION, MULTIPLICATION, DIVISION, FINDING SQUARE ROOTS, EXPONENTS, RECIPROCALS, LOGARITHMS ETC; HAS STORAGE & RECALL ABILITIES

Technical

The majority of Wang 100-series machines were built with small-scale TTL circuits with machines with DTL integrated circuits. First Series machines went on market in June 1970. Model 144 had 14 memories w/Nixie display and sold for apx $2,000 US being at the top end of the range (model 154 had a printer rather than a display.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

RAISED PLATE READING 'WANG 144' ON FRONT/ WHITE & BLACK PRINTING ON PAPER LABELS & CASING/ MFR'S PLATE ON UNDERSIDE

Missing

N/A

Finish

ORANGE, BLACK, & BUFF CASING/ WHITE, BUFF, BLACK & RED BUTTONS/ TRANSPARENT GREY, BLUE, ORANGE, & COLOURLESS BUTTON COVERS

Decoration

N/A