Artifact Details

Title

FIDAC Controller

Catalog Number

102751997

Type

Physical Object

Description

Controller for the Film Input to Digital Automatic Computer (FIDAC). Four ribbon cables are attached to the rear of the object.

The FIDAC is a high-speed flying-spot scanner for on-line input of digitized pictorial data into a computer's memory. Designed in 1965 for chromosome research by Robert Ledley, Professor of Physiology and Biophysics and Professor of Radiology at Georgetown University School of Medicine.

Manufacturer

System Industries, Inc.

Place Manufactured

U.S.

Identifying Numbers

Model number 9800-R
Serial number 00450

Dimensions

overall: 5 1/4 in x 19 in x 23 1/2 in

Credit

Gift of the National Biomedical Research Foundation

Lot Number

X9031.2019