Summary
Letter to Sir George Paton, University Vice-Chancellor from SR Kegele of AWA, regarding the Bendix Computer system. The letter is accompanied by a brochure and a catalogue. This is a sales attempt. The material was included with the CSIRAC computer archival collection donated by the University of Melbourne. It has nothing to do with CSIRAC.
Correspondence details:
20/9/61 AWA to George Paton: Bendix Digital computers and sales brochure and catalogue.
Physical Description
Colour brochure, colour catalogue and accompanying letter (2 sheets).
More Information
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Collection Names
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Collecting Areas
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Acquisition Information
Donation from Computer Science & Software Engineering Department, University of Melbourne (The), by Jul 2003
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User
Computation Laboratory, University of Melbourne (The), Grattan Street, Parkville, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1956-1957
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Collector
CSIRAC History Team, Melbourne, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1995 or later
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Inscriptions
Letter dated '20 September, 1961' Brochure front cover text includes 'Bendix 320' Catalogue front cover text includes 'The Bendix G-20 System'
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Classification
Computing & calculating, Digital computing, Paperwork & documentation
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Category
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Discipline
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Type of item
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Overall Dimensions
217 mm (Width), 0.1 mm (Depth), 262 mm (Height)
Dimensions of letter sheets.
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Overall Dimensions
215 mm (Width), 0.2 mm (Depth), 280 mm (Height)
Dimensions of brochure.
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Overall Dimensions
216 (Width), 0.3 (Depth), 280 (Height)
Dimensions of catalogue.
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Keywords
Computing, CSIRAC (Computer), First Generation Computers, Mainframe Computers, Making History - CSIRAC
