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- OBJECT TYPE
- INTEGRATED CIRCUIT/CORE MEMORY
- DATE
- 1970–1979
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1990.0271.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Hewlett-Packard
- MODEL
- 2100A
- LOCATION
- Cupertino, California, United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- 1244A01941
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- METAL & SYNTHETIC CASING/ SYNTHETIC CONTROL BUTTONS ON FRONT/ 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
- 65.5 cm
- Width
- 44.2 cm
- Height
- 30.5 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
- Hewlett Packard
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- California
- City
- Cupertino
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- 1970'S-1980'S
- Canada
-
AMERICANMADE COMPUTER USED WITH CANADIAN PRODUCED POSITION LOCATING SYSTEM BY GEODETIC SURVEY OF CANADIAN DEPT. OF ENERGY, MINES, & RESOURCES. THIS SYSTEM ENABLED SURVEY OF CANADIAN SUBARCTIC WITHOUT USING MANUAL METHODS SUCH AS TRIANGULATION CHAINS. - Function
-
PROGRAMMABLE MACHINE WHICH ACCEPTS & PROCESSES DATA. THIS EXAMPLE PROCESSED DATA IN FORM OF MEASUREMENTS OF DOPPLER SHIFT OF ORBITING SATELLITE MEASURED BY SURVEYORS ON GROUND; COMPUTER TRANSLATED MEASUREMENTS INTO GEOGRAPHIC POSITIONS - Technical
-
1970'S MINICOMPUTER, ONE OF SEVERAL MODELS MADE BY HEWLETT-PACKARD. IT WAS USED WITH EARLY SATELLITE-BASED LOCATING SYSTEM USED FOR NAVIGATION, SURVEYING ETC. LATTER MADE USE OF DOPPLER EFFECT & WAS PRECURSOR TO 1980S-1990S GPS TECHNOLOGY. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- WHITE LETTERING ON FRONT READS '2100A COMPUTER/ HEWLETT-PACKARD'/ LABELS ON BACK READ 'HEWLETT-PACKARD/ MODEL 2100A/ S/N 1244A0194/ MADE IN U.S.A.', 'HEWLETT-PACKARD/ OPTION 008/ MADE IN U.S.A.', 'HEWLETT-PACKARD USA/ SYS# 1513F'/ LABEL ON FRONT READS 'EMR INVENTORY CONTROL/ EMR CONTROLE DES STOCKS/ R.C./C.R. 633 024588/ EQ CODE D'EQUIPE 7021-895-8174'
- Missing
- APPEARS COMPLETE
- Finish
- TEXTURED GREY SYNTHETIC CASING SIDES & TOP/ LIGHT GREY TEXTURED FINISH ON METAL FRONT PANEL, WITH MEDIUM & DARK GREY SYNTHETIC PANELS, LATTER CONTAINING WHITE CONTROL BUTTONS/ PLATED KEY & LOCK/ METALLIC PARTS/ MULTICOLOURED SYNTHETIC WORKING PARTS
- Decoration
- WHITE, BLUE, & BLACK HP LOGO PLATE ON FRONT
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Hewlett-Packard, Central processing unit, between 1970–1979, Artifact no. 1990.0271, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1990.0271.001/
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