Artifact Details

Title

SDS AX16 Controlled rise/fall time cable driver module

Catalog Number

102733674

Type

Physical object

Description

These two modules are PCBs intended to be inserted in a card cage. There is an extraction handle attached to the front of the card, on which a paper label containing the model number, serial number, and other information is printed.

Opposite the handle there are 47 bifurcated gold-plated contacts arranged in two rows. Mounted on the component side of the PCB are the active and passive components, consisting mainly of transistors, diodes, resistors, capacitors, and jumpers.

All the cards have various quality control stamps on one or both sides of the PCB.

Date

ca. 1965

Manufacturer

Scientific Data Systems (SDS)

Place Manufactured

Santa Monica, Calif.

Identifying Numbers

Model number AX16 Printed in black ink at the top of the extraction handle.
Other number 114269C Stamped in black ink on the circuit side of both of the modules.
Serial number 1573543 Printed vertically in black ink on the extraction handle of one module.
Serial number 5270968 Printed vertically in black ink on the extraction handle of one module.

Dimensions

overall: 6 in x 7/8 in x 5 5/8 in

Category

Component/module

Credit

Gift of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Lot Number

X3872.2007