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Ferranti-Packard Read Amplifier

physical object

2010.1.21

Description

This is read amplifier manufactured by Ferranti-Packard company, in or after 1958. This type of module was commonly used by Ferranti engineers in the mid 1950s (and after it merged to become Ferranti-Packard in 1958) for various electronic computing projects.
  • Stachniak, Zbigniew, and Scott Campbell. Computing in Canada: Building a Digital Future. Transformations 17. Ottawa: Canada Science and Technology Museum, 2009, p. 24,27.
  • Ball, Norman R., and John N. Vardalas. Ferranti-Packard: Pioneers in Canadian Electrical Manufacturing. McGill-Queen’s Press - MQUP, 1994.

Related Donors

 Systems Design Undergraduate Lab
 Kina Kim
 Scott Campbell

Related Term

 circuitry components (describes)