Whirlwind Exhibit at Computer History Museum in Boston
Catalog Number
102622512
Type
Still Image
Description
Black and white. Whirlwind is on exhibition at Computer History Museum (then The Computer Museum) in Boston. Photo panels located in the background behind a fixed head drum unit with wiring and cables attached to it. To the center-right, the core memory stack and arithmetic element. The picture panel shows four people at the Whirlwind installation. A woman is seated at a CRT display, one man seated and two others looking over his shoulder.
Verso label: "Looking more like a scene from a science fiction movie than a computer is the Whirlwind, the first real-time, parallel-processing computer with core memory. It starred on CBS's ""See It Now'" in 1951. Today, it mingles with lesser-known stars at The Computer Museum in Marlboro, Massachusetts. The Museum closed in November to move to Museum Wharf in downtown Boston. It will reopen in fall in 1984."
