Mainframe Computer Component, CG24 Circuit Board, Time Base Generator
Object Details
- Description
- In the years following World War II, MIT established Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Massachusetts, to carry out research projects for the U.S. military. These included building the CG24, a transistorized computer that could simulate real time conditions. Designed and built in 1956 and 1957, it ran from 1958 until being scrapped in 1966-67. The CG24 was installed in Westford, Massachusetts, to interpret data from a tracking radar on Millstone Hill. Initially intended to track incoming missiles, the radar and computer also followed artificial satellites and measured lunar features.
- Some twenty-four components of the CG24 are included in accession 304346, most of them individual circuit boards.
- This brown board is marked: Time Base Gen. A paper tag that came with the object reads: Time Base (/) Generator (/) (established timing (/) throughout the computer).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- 1958
- ID Number
- CI.333907
- accession number
- 304346
- catalog number
- 333907
- maker
- Lincoln Laboratory, MIT
- Object Name
- computer component, mainframe
- mainframe computer component
- Measurements
- overall: 4.5 cm x 14.5 cm x 16 cm; 1 25/32 in x 5 23/32 in x 6 5/16 in
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Lexington
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Record ID
- nmah_1398113
