General Information

Serial #

1 PROTOTYPE

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

METAL CASING & PARTS/ SYNTHETIC CASING TOP, DRUM COVER PANELS, CONTROLS, PARTS/ RUBBER WHEELS

Dimensions

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

Length

190.5 cm

Width

101.5 cm

Height

137.0 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Computing Technology

Category

Digital peripheral 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

1967-C.1982

Canada

DRUM SCANNER DEVELOPED BY IBM (NEW YORK) UNDER CONTRACT TO ARDA TO ASSIST IN PROCESS OF RESOURCE MAPPING FOR CANADA LAND INVENTORY. CANADA WAS FIRST NATION IN WORLD ABLE TO CARRY OUT CONTINENT WIDE GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS FROM HIGH RESOLUTION MAP DATA CONCERNING NATURAL RESOURCES & SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONDITIONS.

Function

COMPUTING DEVICE USED TO CONVERT GRAPHIC (ANALOGUE) INFORMATION IN FORM OF MAPS INTO DIGITAL FORMAT FOR USE IN DATA PROCESSING AND/OR STORAGE. THIS DIGITIZER WAS USED SPECIFICALLY TO SCAN MAPS OF NATURAL RESOURCES SUCH AS SOILS, CROPS, WATER ETC. AS PART OF PROCESS OF DEVELOPING MAPS OF LAND UTILIZATION.

Technical

PROTOTYPE SCANNER BUILT SPECIFICALLY FOR CARTOGRAPHIC DIGITIZING PROJECT. IT WAS 1ST CARTOGRAPHIC SCANNER IN EXISTENCE & HAD CAPABILITIES WHICH DID NOT ROUTINELY APPEAR IN SCANNING SYSTEMS UNTIL 1980'S. DELIVERED IN 1967, IT WAS USED FOR 15 YEARS UNTIL REPLACED BY NEWER MODEL. COMPUTERS USED WERE FIRST IBM 1401 & LATER IBM S/360/65.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

PLATE READS 'IBM 3951 11/ Optical Drum Scanner' ON BACK/ SILVER & BLUE DECAL ON FRONT READING 'CANADA LAND INVENTORY', & DRUM SCANNER'/ BLACK & WHITE LABEL READING '3951'/ RED IMPRESSION PRINTED LABELS READING 'STATUS 3' & 'SER 00-00001'/ BLACK & WHITE LETTERING FOR CONTROL FUNCTIONS

Missing

APPEARS COMPLETE

Finish

TEXTURED BLACK PAINTED HINGED END UNITS & BACK DOOR PANELS/ TEXTURED WHITE PAINTED BACK CASING & FRONT DOOR PANELS/ WHITE ENAMEL PAINTED UPPER FRONT CASING & CONTROL PANELS/ COLOURLESS TRANSPARENT SYNTHETIC PANELS FRONT & BACK OVER DRUM/ WHITE SYNTHETIC CASING TOP/ BLACK PAINTED DRUM/MULTICOLOURED SYNTHETIC CONTROL BUTTONS/ METALLIC & BRUSHED METAL PARTS/ BLACK WHEELS/ GREY POWER CABLES

Decoration

N/A