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              Disk Storage Server
              Heritage collection CERN-OBJ-CERN-OBJ-IT-014 · Item
              Part of Heritage Collection Test

              This model was a disk storage server used in the Data Centre up until 2012. Each tray contains a hard disk drive (see the 5TB hard disk drive on the main disk display section - this actually fits into one of the trays). There are 16 trays in all per server. There are hundreds of these servers mounted on racks in the Data Centre, as can be seen.

              Digital RMO3P
              Heritage collection CERN-OBJ-CERN-OBJ-IT-133 · Item · 1980-1989
              Part of Heritage Collection Test

              Digital Equipment Corporation RMO3P is a disk pack data cartridge removed from 1980's VAX-11. It measures 15" wide and 4" high.

              DEC VT220
              Heritage collection CERN-OBJ-CERN-OBJ-IT-032 · Item · 1983
              Part of Heritage Collection Test

              The DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) VT220 is a text terminal which uses an redesigned keyboard(LK201). The VT220 improved on the earlier VT100 series of terminals with much smaller physical packaging and and a much faster microprocessor.

              CPU Server
              Heritage collection CERN-OBJ-CERN-OBJ-IT-022 · Item
              Part of Heritage Collection Test

              The CERN computer centre has hundreds of racks like these. They are over a million times more powerful than our first computer in the 1960's. This tray is a 'dual-core' server. This means it effectively has two CPUs in it (eg. two of your home computers minimised to fit into a single box). Also note the copper cooling fins, to help dissipate the heat.

              Computer Data Punch Cards
              Heritage collection CERN-OBJ-CERN-OBJ-IT-052 · Item · 1970-1979
              Part of Heritage Collection Test

              Those card are printed with minimal layout aids for the formatting of FORTRAN programs, plus extra guidelines every ten columns suggesting a generic tabular data layout. A punch card is a piece of stiff paper that can be used to contain digital information represented by the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions. Punched cards were used for specialized unit record machines, organized into semiautomatic data processing systems, used punched cards for data input, output, and storage. Furthermore many new digital computers started to used punched cards.