Artifact Details

Description

This module is a PCB 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.

The card has various quality control stamps on both sides of the PCB.

Date

ca. 1964

Manufacturer

Scientific Data Systems (SDS)

Place Manufactured

Santa Monica, Calif.

Identifying Numbers

Model number	AK53	Printed in black ink at the top of the extraction handle of the module.
Other number	106817D	Stamped in black ink on the circuit side of the module.
Serial number	451104	Printed vertically in black ink on the extraction handle of the 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