Arithmetic unit
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- OBJECT TYPE
- VACUUM TUBE/32 BIT
- DATE
- 1960
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1983.0012.001
- MANUFACTURER
- International Business Machines Corp.
- MODEL
- SAGE AN-FSQ-7
- LOCATION
- Kingston, New York, United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- 001
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 2
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- METAL CASINGS & WORKING PARTS/ SYNTHETIC WORKING PARTS, CONTROLS/ SYNTHETIC & METAL BASE PANELS/ GLASS PARTS
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 361.0 cm
- Width
- 95.0 cm
- Height
- 208.0 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
- IBM
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- New York
- City
- Kingston
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- AN/FSQ-7 COMPUTER SYSTEM WAS OPERATIONAL FROM OCT. 1963 TO JUNE 15, 1983
- Canada
-
SAGE WAS COMPUTERIZED AIR DEFENSE SYSTEM WHICH PROTECTED U.S. & CANADA FROM AIR ATTACK. IT CONSISTED OF NUMBER OF RADAR STATIONS & COMMAND CENTRES ACROSS CONTINENT; THIS EQUIPMENT IS FROM SAGE CENTRE OF 22ND NORAD REGION, AT CFB NORTH BAY, ONT. THIS WAS ONLY NON-AMERICAN SAGE CENTRE & ONLY "HARDENED" (UNDERGROUND) SITE. - Function
-
COMPONENT OF LARGE MAIN-FRAME MILITARY COMPUTER SYSTEM USED FOR AIR DEFENSE, WHICH PERFORMED ARITHMETIC OPERATIONS. EACH SYSTEM HAD TWO ARITHMETIC UNITS, WHICH PERFORMED MATHEMATICAL CALCULATIONS SUCH AS PLOTTING AIRCRAFT FLIGHT PLANS. - Technical
-
32 BIT SAGE AN/FSQ7 COMPUTER WAS DEVELOPED FROM MIT'S WHIRLWIND, FIRST REAL-TIME DIGITAL COMPUTER. SAGE WAS FIRST PRODUCTION MODEL COMPUTER WITH DUPLEXED COMPUTER OPERATION, MAGNETIC (FERRITE) CORE MEMORY, LARGE-SCALE COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK INCLUDING HIGH-SPEED MODEMS; CRT DISPLAYS & LIGHT GUNS, OTHER INNOVATIONS. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- MFR'S PLATES READING "IBM/ Right Arithmetic/ Unit/ Federal Systems Division", "Designed & Manufactured for United States Air Force/ USAF", "Right Arithmetic Unit/ CP-273/ FSQ/ S/N 001/ IBM Part No. 3146527/ Contract AF-30 (635) 18891/Manufactured for International Business Machines Corporation by the Bendix Corporation, York Division, York, Pennsylvania, USA".
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- TEXTURED LIGHT GREY PAINTED CASINGS/ CABINET/ GREY TINTED SYNTHETIC & PLATED BASE PANELS/ BRUSHED METAL TRIM & METAL TUBE MODULES/ BLACK BASE/ RED, GREEN & WHITE BUTTONS, BLACK SWITCHES
- Decoration
- N/A
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International Business Machines Corp., Arithmetic unit, circa 1960, Artifact no. 1983.0012, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1983.0012.001/
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