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OBJECT TYPE: memory core/magnetic
DATE: 1969
ARTIFACT NUMBER: 1978.1055.002

MANUFACTURER: Sperry Rand Corp.
MODEL: Unknown
LOCATION: United States of America

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General Information

Serial #: N/A
Part Number: 2
Total Parts: 3
AKA: N/A
Patents: N/A
General Description: Unknown

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Lexicon

Group: Computing Technology
Category: Digital peripheral devices
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Manufacturer

AKA: Sperry
Country: United States of America
State/Province: Unknown
City: Unknown

Context

Country: Canada
State/Province: Ontario
Period: AFTER 1968 TO BEFORE 1978
Canada: EQUIPMENT USED BY COMPUTEL, THE FIRST CANADIAN COMPUTER UTILITY TO ISSUE SHARES AS A PUBLIC COMPANY, IN 1967. IT PROVIDED CLIENTS WITH COMPUTING POWER OVER-THE-COUNTER OR BY TELEPHONE LINK. IT EXPANDED INTO ANATION-WIDE COMPUTER SERVICE NETWORK & WAS BOUGHT IN 1982 BY CANADA SYSTEMS GROUP.
Function: A PERIPHERAL DATA STORAGE DEVICE USED FOR MASS STORAGE OF COMPUTER DATA AS MAGNETIZED AREAS ON CIRCULAR TRACKS ON THE POLISHED METAL SURFACE OF A DRUM.
Technical: DEVELOPED IN THE EARLY 1950'S, THE MAGNETIC DRUM PROVIDED RANDOM-ACCESS MASS-STORAGE OF DATA, IT WAS SO SLOW THAT IT WAS RARELY USED FOR INTERNAL MEMORY BUT MORE OFTEN AS PERIPHERAL STORAGE. THIS LATE 1960'S UNIT WAS USED, IN CONJUNCTION WITH A CONTROLLER, WITH A NUMBER OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS.
Area Notes: Unknown

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Missing: N/A
Finish: Unknown
Decoration: N/A

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Sperry Rand Corp., Drum, circa 1969, Artifact no. 1978.1055, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingenium.ca/en/item/1978.1055.002/

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