Computer History Museum

<p>Black and white image of Burroughs E101 computer. A group of people are sitting around the E101 and there is a WJBK-TV camera in the image. The E101 was used to forecast presdential elections. Verso of image notes that Saul Rosen is the man standing in the picture.</p>

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Still Image
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Photographic Print
Catalogue number
102618641
Burroughs E101 computer

Black and white image of a 1930 differential analyzer, the first automatic computer.

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Still Image
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Photographic Print
Catalogue number
102618648
Vannevar Bush's differential analyzer

<p>This is a black and white image of a man wearing a suit sitting down in front of the IBM 705. This is a side profile shot of the man who is looking down at the console.</p>

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Still Image
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Photographic Print
Catalogue number
102618657
IBM 705 Data Processing System

Black and white image of the Johnniac. A photograph of John Von Neumann hangs on the wall located to the right of the machine. Verso of image has written in pencil on the top proper right corner "Johnniac computer built by Rand Corportation 1952". In the middle there is a stamp in black ink "Jan 20 1966". The number "P3149" appears on the proper left hand corner.

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Still Image
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Photographic Print
Catalogue number
102618693
JOHNNIAC in operation

Black and white snapshot of Rey Johnson standing in front of RAMAC disk drive touching actuator mechanism.

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Still Image
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Photographic Print
Catalogue number
102618852
Rey Johnson in front of RAMAC

Black and white image of two FlipChip modules superimposed in front of a Teletype machine Verso " W706+W707"

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Still Image
Catalogue number
102618928
DEC Modules - Flip Chip boards

Black and white photograph of a Color poster of comic book heroes with Computer Crusader in 3d letters. The figures have Nova and Eclipse on their costume front. Data General logo.

Type
Still Image
Catalogue number
102621789
Data General - Nova

Black and white. B&W image of a woman making adjustments to a Honeywell 618 computer. The view is through a ring of glass giving a keyhole effect.

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Still Image
Catalogue number
102621835
Honeywell 618

This is a color image of the ENIAC-on-a-Chip, an ENIAC test chip created by a team of students and faculty at the University of Pennsylvania School Of Engineering & Applied Science, for the ENIAC 50th celebration February 14,1996.

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Still Image
Catalogue number
102622393
ENIAC on-a-Chip

This is a color image of two undergraduate male students holding chips that hold the entire ENIAC circuitry. The student on the left,wearing a "PENN" shirt has a die on his left finger tip and the student on the right, wearing glasses, has an IC chip in his right hand. In the background are computers that look like the original ENIAC. Background is somewhat dark with light coming from the direction of the camera. Written on the label affixed to verso side is "Penn undergrads, James Tau & Lin Ping Ang, hold the ENIAC test chip (containing the entire original ENIAC circuitry) which they and faculty from Penn's Electrical Engineering Dept., School of Engineering & Applied Science, created for the ENIAC 50th celebration. This copy is provided for research purposes only, and with the understanding that no further reproduction or quotation from it will be made without express permission of the author."

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Still Image
Format
Photographic Print
Catalogue number
102622394
James Tau and Lin Ping Ang hold the ENIAC test chip

This is a color image of the ENIAC-on-a-Chip. Verso white paper label: "ENIAC-on-a-CHIP (7.44 mm by 5.29mm; .05 microm CMOS process; 174.569 Trans.) The chip contains the modules of the original ENIAC(TM) including, 20 accumulators, Constant Transmitter, Cycling Unit, Initiation Unit, Function Table, Master Programmer, High Speed Multiplier, Divider and Square Rooter. It was designed by a group of students at the University of Pennsylvania (Dept. of Electrical Engineering). 1996-1997.

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Still Image
Catalogue number
102622397
ENIAC on-a-Chip

This is a color image of the ENIAC-on-a-Chip Design Team.They are in front of a blown up famous photograph of the officials responsible for the development of ENIAC. Verso: White Label: University of Pennysylvania Archives The ENIAC-on-a-Chip student/faculty desigh team, taken on the occasion of the ENIAC 50th Celebrtation in February 1996. From front left to right James Tau, Gilbert Pajela, Wallace Wong, Lin Ping Ang, Mathew Zeno, Titi Alailima, Mihael Feng, Dong Yoon, Raymond Tong, Jan Van der Spiegel, Frederick Ketterer, and Debra Seider. In the background is a photograph of the members of the original ENIAC team taken at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering in 1946.

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Still Image
Catalogue number
102622401
ENIAC on-a-chip design team

<p>Black and white. Joe Thompson sitting at Whirlwind. Verso label: "In 1951, high school graduate Joe Thompson, 18, was trained as one of the first two computer operators. The computer was the Whirlwind, the prototype for the SAGE air defense system. Thompson, now 58, is a senior analyst at Unisys in Culver City, CA. 'Computers changed my whole life,' he says. The Whirlwind is the centerpience of the second milestone in the exhibit, "People and Computers: Milestones of a Revolution," opening June 29, 1991, at The Computer Museum, Boston."</p>

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Photographic Print
Catalogue number
102622504
Whirlwind with Joe Thompson

Black and white. Shows Norman Taylor, Robert Everett and Gus O'Brien looking at the control matrix for the Whirlwind I computer.

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Still Image
Catalogue number
102622550
Whirlwind I Computer

Black and white group portrait of the LINC Development Group. L to R Fourth row back: Dan Callileo, Charlie Molnar, Alex Vanderberg, Norm Kinch, unknown Third row: Frank daCosta, Don Capone, Don O'brian "Obie", unknown, Howard Lewis, Lou Hirshberg, Bill Gumes Second row: Mary Allen Wilkes, Joan (Reifel) Stockebrand, Gail Anderson, Hilda Carpenter, Bill Simon Front row: Severo Ornstein, Tom Stockebrand, Wes Clark

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Still Image
Format
Photographic Print
Catalogue number
102622651
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Black and white image of Apollo guidance computer designer Eldon Hall handling the computer.

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Still Image
Format
Photographic Print
Catalogue number
102622675
Eldon C. Hall with an Apollo Guidance Computer

Black and white. Three persons, one man is kneeling with a control-like panel in his hand; two persons in background, standing, man has right hand on cable, woman is carrying binder.

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Still Image
Format
Photographic Print
Catalogue number
102622742
ENIAC being set up

<p>This is a color image of a Vinton Cerf demonstrating ARPANET in South Africa. It was done in conjunction with a conference sponsored by the International Federation of Information Processing Societies (IFIPS). Mr. Cerf's typing into the terminal and facing away from the camera. A modem with its cover removed is in the background and a white telephone is connected to it. Mr. Cerf is wearing a white shirt and tied and a checkered vest. Written on verso side is "2" and is circled.</p>

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Still Image
Format
Photographic Print
Catalogue number
102625115
Vinton Cerf demonstrating ARPANET in South Africa

<p>This is a black and white image of Vinton Cerf standing on the right and an unidentified man on the left and behind as well next to the SIGMA 7 computer which hosted ARPANET and measured its performance. Cerf was responsible for programming the Network Measurement system at UCLA. Vinton is wearing a suit and tied and sporting a full beard. Light is coming from the ceiling lights. Written on verso side is "1" and is circled.</p>

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Still Image
Format
Photographic Print
Catalogue number
102625118
Vinton Cerf at UCLA working with SIGMA 7 computer and ARPANET

Black and white image of the Apollo Domain workstation with a man using the keyboard. Verso of image has in pencil numbers is "81-710-21". On the right side of these numbers in pencil is "#304". Middle of verso is a label with black ink reads "Apollo Domain".

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Still Image
Format
Photographic Print
Catalogue number
102626961
Apollo Domain Workstation