Artifact Details

Title

IBM 7030 "The Stretch" Data Processing System

Catalog Number

102640246

Type

Still Image

Description

Color, perspective view of IBM 7030 Data Processing System Disk Storage Unit with doors and gates open showing a vertical stack of horizontal disks. Single disk, standing upright at center foreground. Pumps visible at bottom of unit. Open gate show wiring/cabling. Raised floor, light color tiles, computer room environment. Verso: Two small, yellow Post-It notes : first "IBM 7030 Stretch (60s); second "Disk Unit with open logic frame. A platter from a disk". Upper center edge, "#1385" in black pencil. [8/22/2005 JJL]

Photographer

Public Relations Photo Service

Identifying Numbers

Other number #1385

Dimensions

5 x 5 in.

Format

Photographic print

Category

Identification photograph; Publicity photograph

Subject

Computer industry--History; Computers--History; Electronic data processing--History

Credit

Courtesy of Gwen Bell

Lot Number

X7413.2015