DIGITAL TRAINERS
TUBE TYPE - IBM Digital trainer - uses the earliest of IBM plug in tube
things that were in their commercial systytems
http://www.smecc.org/video/logic_5.gif
IF ANYONE CAN SHED LIGHT ON THIS IT WOULD BE FANTASTIC!
SOLID STATE - DEC COMPUTER LAB with the pdp-8 I toggles... not RARE
but is cool!
RELAY - - MINIVAC 601
COMPUTERS
for tube computer - - our sage stuff also.
for solid state - some of our GE Erma material.
for mechanical analog computer -- some kid of weird thing with gears
shafts , bellows and I think
this weird thing runs off compressed air. details pending
for electronic analog computer - Syston Donner with Tubes in it not that
RARE but we are proud of it!
for calculators - W.W. Salisbury's HP 35 that he used for Spiral
Fusion Calculations
ACTIVE DEVICES
Tubes- - single Plate early Deforest Spherical Audion
Transistors - - experimental and Pre-production prototypes ALL Bell
Transistors
DIGITAL TRAINERS
IBM Digital trainer - uses the earliest of IBM plug in tube things that
were in their commercial systems
http://www.smecc.org/video/logic_5.gif
IF ANYONE CAN SHED LIGHT ON THIS IT WOULD BE FANTASTIC!
Comes in a fitted wood case with lots of plugable modules with tubes and
other parts.
But we love all the stuff! Ed# _www.smecc.org_ (
http://www.smecc.org)
In a message dated 1/10/2017 4:42:21 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us writes:
On Tue, 10 Jan 2017, Andy Cloud wrote:
I thought this would be an interesting question to
ask around - What's
the
rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you
own?
64Kbit core plane from an AN/FSQ-7 (SAGE) computer:
http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/SAGE/Coreplane-1L.jpg
...along with other Q7 parts:
http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/SAGE/
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology
http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/