Artifact Details

Title

MINSK-2 Logic PC Board

Catalog Number

102712235

Type

Still Image

Description

B&W image of MINSK-2 PC Board
Metadata: " USSR Government, MINSK-2 Logic PC Board. In 1952 the MINSK-2 was one of the most heavily used general-purpose computers in Russia. More than 2,000 of these computers and their derivatives were built between 1951 and 1976. Each computer had a set of 107 two-address instructions and a word length of 37 bits. their computing speed was 5,000 instrucions per second and a floating-point addition took 72 microseconds. The main menory on the MINSK-2 was on ferrite cores, with either 4,000 or 8,000 words and secondary memory was on magnetic tapes."

Date

1962 ca.

Identifying Numbers

Other number 207825 Recto on Board
Other number P1839 Verso pencil

Dimensions

overall: 8 x 10

Category

Identification photograph

Credit

Courtesy of Gwen Bell

Lot Number

X7413.2015