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Title
Technician testing a connection in the internal wiring of a Burroughs 205 Electronic Digital Computer, 1950-1960
Date Created and/or Issued
1950/1960
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a technician testing a connection in the internal wiring of a Burroughs 205 Electronic Digital Computer, 1950-1960. The technician is kneeling at right and is reaching into the wiring of the computer at left. She is holding two alligator clips in her hands. She is wearing a light-colored shirt, dark apron, and a large bracelet. There are thousands of wires visible in the computer. The computer was manufactured by the Burroughs Corporation's Electro Data Division at its Pasadena plant.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
26 x 21 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m20467 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-33220
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m20467
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-33220.jpg
Subject
Burroughs Corporation
Computers
Industry--General
Industrial sites
Time Period
1950/1960
Place
California
Los Angeles
Pasadena
USA
Source
33220 [Accession number]
CHS-33220 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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