Artifact Details

Title

Ardent slide viewer

Catalog Number

102670801

Type

Physical object

Description

This is an Ardent slide viewer. It contains a detachable paper card reading "Ardent Computer The Leader in Visual Computing", followed by 7 images: "Protein Thermolysin BioDesign, Inc.", " Yosemite Valley USGS", "Unsteady Flow on Helicomputer & Wake Analytical Methods, Inc.", "Surfaces on Surfaces Foley, Lane, Neilson, Arizona State Univ", "Satellite Imaging General Dynamics", "Pelvis SPECT Volume Ohio Imaging, Inc.", and "DYNA3D Simulation LLNL". The bottom of the card says, "All images rendered on Ardent Titan. Ardent Computer Corp. 1989. 880 W. Maude, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 408/732-0400".

Date

1989

Manufacturer

Ardent Computer Corporation

Place Manufactured

New York, USA

Dimensions

overall: 7 1/4 in x 4 1/4 in x 1 3/4 in

Category

Ephemera/other

Credit

Gift of Douglas Merrell

Lot Number

X5426.2009