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RW-30 digital airborne computer, completely transistorized, showing subminiaturized packaging techniques and silicon circuitry, ca.1955

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Title: RW-30 digital airborne computer, completely transistorized, showing subminiaturized packaging techniques and silicon circuitry, ca.1955
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1955
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 RW-30 digital airborne computer, completely transistorized, showing subminiaturized packaging techniques and silicon circuitry, ca.1955. A man wearing a suit and spectacles is holding what seems to be a box with rows of circuit disks(?). A second box, which is located directly in front of the first one, displays two rows of circuit disks and below these, what appear to be small drawers are observable
two metallic handles and input switches are visible on its top. To the right, a third box is visible showing the same type of input switches and metallic handles
several knobs are visible on its side. In the left, a fourth box is visible with rows of circuit disks on its top and it shows a large knob surrounded by cables which seem to be connected to the box. All objects are sitting on a table and a light-colored wall fills in the backdrop.
Photoprint reads: "Subminiaturized packaging techniques -- the RW-30 digital airborne computer is completely transistorized, and subminiaturized packaging techniques and silicon circuitry are used throughout. The new control computer combines computation speed with reduction in size, weight and power consumption. The complete computer has a volume of 4.19 cubic feet and weighs only 203 pounds. It consists of four separately packaged units--magnetic drum storage unit, arithmetic and control unit, input-output unit, and clock generator and power supply unit. It was developed by the Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation under contract to the Air Arm Division of Westinghouse Electric Corporation".
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier: chs-m10934
USC-2-1-1-11085 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-40633
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10934
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-40633.jpg
Subject: Industry--Aerospace
Industry
Electronics
Computers
Engineering
Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation
Industrial sites
Time Period: circa 1955
Place: California
Los Angeles
USA
Source: 40633 [Accession number]
CHS-40633 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: 84-1-1316 [Identifying number]
Relation: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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