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- OBJECT TYPE
- TRANSISTOR/CORE MEMORY
- DATE
- 1958–1962
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1966.0193.001
- MANUFACTURER
- DRTE
- MODEL
- DRTE DIRTY GERTIE
- LOCATION
- Shirleys Bay, Ontario, Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- PROTOTYPE
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 4
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- METALS; RUBBER; PLASTICS; GLASS; FABRIC
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 220.0 cm
- Width
- 121.0 cm
- Height
- 136.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Space Technology
- Category
- Space science
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Communications CA
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- City
- Shirleys Bay
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- 1961-1966
- Canada
-
POSSIBLY FIRST TRANSISTORIZED COMPUTER DESIGNED & BUILT IN CANADA. EXPERTISE IN TRANSISTOR TECHNOLOGY IT GENERATED LATER ENABLED DEVELOPMENT OF RELIABLE CIRCUITRY FOR CANADIAN SATELLITES. IT WAS USED FOR COMPUTING AT DRTE & FOR PROCESSING DATA FROM OTHER CANADIAN SCIENTIFIC ENDEAVOURS SUCH AS ALOUETTE, CANADA'S FIRST SATELLITE, & AURORA EXPERIMENTS AT PRINCE ALBERT RADAR LAB - Function
-
PROGRAMMABLE MACHINE THAT ACCEPTS & PROCESSES DATA. ORIGINALLY DESIGNED & BUILT BY GOVERNMENT DEFENSE RESEARCH AGENCY AS MEANS OF INVESTIGATING TRANSISTOR TECHNOLOGY, IT WAS USED ALSO FOR RESEARCH IN COMPUTER SCIENCE & AS COMPUTER TO PROCESS DATA FROM OTHER INTERNAL & EXTERNAL SCIENTIFIC ENDEAVOURS. - Technical
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ONE-OF-A-KIND COMPUTER, NEVER PRODUCED COMMERCIALLY. IT WAS INNOVATIVE FOR ITS TIME, WITH SEVERAL NOVEL CONCEPTS SUCH AS NEW FORM OF TRANSISTORIZED FLIP-FLOP (P-N-P-N) CIRCUITRY, HARDWARE INSTEAD OF SOFTWARE DECIMAL-TO-BINARY & BINARY-TO-DECIMAL (DBBD) CONVERTER, & UNIQUE CORE MEMORY. SEVERAL PATENTS WERE TAKEN OUT BY CANADIAN GOV'T (SEE PATENTS). - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- INCISED LETTERING ON UPPER LEFT PANEL READING "MEMORY"; LOWER CENTRE PANEL "PROGRAMCOUNTER" & "AUTOMATIC OPERATION"; UPPER CENTRE PANEL "ARITHMETIC CONTROL"; UPPER RIGHT PANEL "CONVERTER"/ LETTERING ON PANELS FOR CONTROL FUNCTIONS/ PUNCHED LABEL ON "FLORA FLORIDA LIKE OCCIDENTAL RECORDING ABACUS FLORA"
- Missing
- ORIGINAL PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT INCLUDED 4 TAPE RECORDERS, PRINTER, HIGH-SPEED TAPE PUNCH & READER, & POWER SUPPLIES
- Finish
- GREY METAL CABINET HAS DESK LIKE APPEARANCE; GREEN LEATHERETTE - TEXTURED COVERING GLUED TO DESK-TOP SURFACES
- Decoration
- N/A
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DRTE, Computer, between 1958–1962, Artifact no. 1966.0193, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/item/1966.0193.001/
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