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CDC 6600 Cordwood Module
Heritage collection CERN-OBJ-CERN-OBJ-IT-024 · Stuk · 1964
Part of Heritage Collection Test

The CDC 6600 cordwood module containing 64 silicon transistors. The module was mounted between two plates that were cooled conductive by a refrigeration unit via the front panel. The construction of this module uses the cord method, so called because the resistors seem to be stacked like cord between the two circuit boards in order to obtain a high density. The 6600 model contained nearly 6,000 such modules.

SecurID
Heritage collection CERN-OBJ-CERN-OBJ-IT-026 · Stuk
Part of Heritage Collection Test

Now called RSA SecurID, SecurID is a mechanism developed by Security Dynamics that allows two-factor authentication for a user on a network resource. It works on the principle of the unique password mode, based on a shared secret. Every sixty seconds, the component generates a new six-digit token on the screen. The latter comes from the current time (internal clock) and the seed (SecurID private key that is available on the component, and is also from the SecurID server). During an authentication request, the SecurID server will check the entered token by performing exactly the same calculation as that performed by your component. The server knows the two information required for this calculation: the current time and the seed of your component. Access is allowed if the token calculated by the server matches the token you specified.

Heritage collection CERN-OBJ-CERN-OBJ-IT-030 · Stuk · 1989
Part of Heritage Collection Test

It was one of the first portable macs released. The Portable had many new advances in mobile computing : The display was crispy clear, and looked beautiful when used in daylight ; The Portable came with a Lead-acid gel/cell battery that could run a anywhere from 6 -12 hours ; It supported to internal hard drives, and an external one. The reaction to the laptop was weak because it was slow, it had no capacity for expansion, it weighed heavily, its price was expensive. It has been stayed 1 year and half on the market.

DEC VT220
Heritage collection CERN-OBJ-CERN-OBJ-IT-032 · Stuk · 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.

Sony D-Eight
Heritage collection CERN-OBJ-CERN-OBJ-IT-039 · Stuk · 1987
Part of Heritage Collection Test

The 8mm backup format is a format for storing magnetic tape data used in computer systems, launched by Exabyte Corporation. It is also known as Data8, often abbreviated to D8 and writes D-Eight on some Sony brand media. The company was formed in order to take the 8 mm video format and make it suitable for data storage. They did this by building a mechanism and a reliable data format that used the common 8 mm video tape technology that was available at the time. This was the first form of helical scanning used commercially for data storage. The ribbon was made vertically and has a length of 112 meters. It was designed to withstand heat and high temperatures. It has been introduced in at CERN in 1994.

Paper Punch Tape
Heritage collection CERN-OBJ-CERN-OBJ-IT-051 · Stuk
Part of Heritage Collection Test

Physicists coded and recorded their programs through series of holes on punch paper tape or on punched cards. It was popular in the 1970s due to its high throughput speed and low cost, paper tape was one of the original data storage methods for computers. Information was encoded in the distinct pattern of holes punched in the paper; the paper itself was oiled to facilitate being run through the reading mechanism and to prevent tears due to brittleness. Though the paper was cheap, it had low storage capacity (only a few dozen kilobytes per roll) and the machinery involved in punching the holes was quite expensive. Higher capacity alternatives, such as magnetic tape, has get developped.

IBM 3090 TCM CPU
Heritage collection CERN-OBJ-CERN-OBJ-IT-066 · Stuk
Part of Heritage Collection Test

This is a Thermal Conduction Module from an IBM 3090. This is a water cooled unit that holds loads of chips.

Olivetti M6 640
Heritage collection CERN-OBJ-CERN-OBJ-IT-069 · Stuk · 1993
Part of Heritage Collection Test

The M6-640 is the highest performance personal computer workstation in the Suprema range with multimedia, document imaging and communications capabilities. It has a 90MHz Pentium processor with 256Kb of secondary cache. It can accommodate up to 128Mb RAM and supports hard disks of up to 1Gb through an IDE interface.