Title
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration collection of SDS 930 materialCatalog Number
102784911Type
DocumentDescription
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) collection of SDS 930 documentation and tapes ranges in date from 1961 to 1994 and consists of printed materials, data stored on magnetic tapes, and software on paper tapes. About half of the collection is made up of documentation related to the SDS 930 and its peripherals, published between 1961 and 1972. Types of materials include reference and technical manuals, reference and design drawings, logic diagrams, program libraries, maintenance training documentation, and wire lists. While the majority of the text materials are published by Scientific Data Systems (SDS), there is a small amount of material published by other companies, including Tally, Rheem Electronics Corporation, Ex-Cell-O Corporation, IBM, Control Data Corporation, Ampex Corporation, Teletype Corporation, and Xerox Data Systems.The rest of the collection consists of paper tapes and magnetic tapes with handwritten labels, which range in date from the mid-1960s to mid-1990s. There are 41 individually boxed magnetic tapes, 21 10.5-inch magnetic tape reels, 1 9-inch magnetic tape reel, 10 7-inch magnetic tape reels, 3 paper tapes on reels, and 4 small boxes of rolled paper tapes. The paper tapes are mainly diagnostic programs, while the magnetic tapes hold satellite cloud and weather pattern data.
Date
1961-1994; bulk 1961-1972Author
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)Identifying Numbers
| Deprecated CHM identification number | 102736933 | Catalog number for software |