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Description: | Double-sided green plastic box with chrome handle at end containing 35 mm computer-related slides from Wallace W Bell (Physics and Engineering) illustrating his research and teaching from 1960s and early 1970s. Some 40 slides showing equipment have been scanned at 3200 dpi in their glass covered mounts, the remaining slides showing diagrams have not been scanned. The slides are mostly without captions. The numbers below have been used for cataloguing only and the corresponding images can be found from the image file names. Identifications may be amended as futher information comes to light. 01 - B&W slide 4120 operations room 02 - B&W slide of 4120 room showing display, teletype, paper tape reader on wall and computer below windows 03 - Colour slide showing 4120 CPU 04 - B&W slide showing 4120 display 05 - B&W slide showing 4120 display 05 - Colour slide showing 4120 display 07 - Colour slide showing 4120 paper tape punch 08 - Colour slide of 4120 double disk drives 09 - Colour slide emphsising one 4120 disk drive 10 - Colour slide of one 4120 disk drive 11 - Colour slide of 4120 paper tape punch 12 - Colour slide of 4120 paper tape punch 13 - Colour slide of plotter with operator 14 - Colour slide of lineprinter with operator 15 - Colour slide of rear of lineprinter 16 - Colour slide showing punched card 17 - Colour sldie showing disk unit and magnetic tape 18 - Colour slide showing 8-hole paper tape 19 - Colour slide showing technologies from valve, discrete components to desk unit 20 - Colour slide showing System 4 paper tape reader 21 - Colour slide showing large (System 4?) printer 22 - Colour slide showing small analogue computer and graphic output on a chart recorder 23 - B&W slide showing Marconi Elliott 905 computer with operator 24 - Colour slide of 60s computer room 25 - Colour slide of IBM? 1960s computer room with two tape readers, console magnetic tape decks 26 - Colour slide of 1960s set of tape readers 27 - Colour slide of large 1960s installation 28 - Colour slide of tape drives in a large 1960s installation 29 - Colour slide of 1960s paper tape reader with operator 30 - Colour slide of 1960 s printer? 31 - Colour slide of 1960s card reader? 32 - Colour slide of 1960s unknown peripheral 33 - B&W slide of 1960s tape reader with operator 34 - B&W slide of 1960s operator 35 - B&W slide of 1960s mag tape deck with operator 36 - Colour slide of 1960s magnetic tape deck being loaded 37 - B&W slide of 1960s printer? with operator 38 - Colour slide of small-scale integrated circuits, with match for scale 39 - B&W picture from a publication of alrge flat-bed plotter with operating desk 40 - 33 unscanned slides, mostly coloured, containing a variety of diagrams and output from a display unit
Acquisition source: Bell, Wallace | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDNP University of Aberdeen, Natural Philosophy Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1960 - 1975 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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