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IBM ASCC-Mark I card weight, paper guide, two multiprong relays

IBM ASCC-Mark I card weight, paper guide, two multiprong relays

Date: circa 1944
Inventory Number: 1997-1-0963d
Classification: Computer Part
Subject:
mathematics, computing,
Maker: International Business Machines Corporation (1911-present)
User: United States Navy (founded 1775)
User: Harvard Computation Laboratory (1944 - 1997)
Maker: Howard H. Aiken (1900 - 1973)
Maker: Clair D. Lake (1888 - 1958)
Maker: Frank E. Hamilton (1898 - 1972)
Maker: Benjamin M. Durfee (1897 - 1980)
Maker: Robert V. D. Campbell (born 1916)
User: Richard M. Bloch (1922 - 2000)
User: Grace Murray Hopper (1906 - 1992)
Cultural Region:
United States,
Place of Origin:
Endicott,
Dimensions:
box: 11.2 × 28.2 × 11.3 cm (4 7/16 × 11 1/8 × 4 7/16 in.)
Material:
metal,
Bibliography:
A Manual of Operation for the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator
Description:
Miscellaneous parts of Mark I: a guide for the paper tape, 2 relays, and a card weight.
In Collection(s)
  • Harvard IBM Mark I Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator
Signedunsigned
Curatorial RemarksTwo relays came off in transit.
Published ReferencesOnline exhibit about the ASCC produced by the IBM corporate archives.

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