Artifact Details

Title

1360 Cypress photo-digital storage system (PDSS) tray with cartridges

Catalog Number

102716870

Type

Physical object

Description

The object is a plastic tray with 33 formed cubby-holes in a three-by-eleven array. Each cubby can contain one film cartridge for the 1360 Photo-Digital Storage System. Each of the cubby-holes has a circular opening on the bottom. Thirty-two of the cubby-holes are populated with storage cartridges. Many of the cartridges have numeric labeling visible from the top. The primary number on the cartridges is white and this tray contains an assortment of numbers. Eleven of the cartridges are not labeled. Eight of those contain varying numbers of film strips, ranging from a few to full. The remaining three unlabeled cartridges, as well as all of the labeled cartridges are empty.

Date

1967

Manufacturer

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)

Identifying Numbers

Other number 93.619.01A LLNL deprecated number, written on the end in black marking pen and denoted with a blue dot sticker

Dimensions

overall: 3 1/8 in x 5 1/2 in x 14 1/4 in

Category

Memory & storage/optical

Credit

Gift of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

Lot Number

XD221.80