Artifact Details

Title

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

Catalog Number

102716873

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. Three of the cubby-holes are open on the bottom, the remaining 30 have a springy plastic door to close their bottoms. Those same 30 cubby-holes are populated with storage cartridges. Many of the cartridges are labeled with numbers and are empty. Some of them are not labeled and seem to contain storage films.

Date

1967

Manufacturer

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)

Identifying Numbers

Other number 33 Appears on two separate dymo labels affixed to the front handle
Other number 82.122.01A LLNL deprecated number, written on the end in black marking pen and denoted with a blue dot sticker

Dimensions

overall: 3 1/4 in x 5 1/2 in x 15 1/2 in

Category

Memory & storage/optical

Credit

Gift of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

Lot Number

XD221.80