Function of the card:
Alloy Punch Magnet Driver
Triple 2 Input Latched Magnet Driver 220mA
Germanium alloy transistors were an early type of transistor, faster than the earlier grown-junction transistors.
Part number:370337
Used in:IBM 1620
Symbol:DPM
Transistor type:026 083
References:
IBM 1620 Instructional System Diagrams, p473.
Pinout:
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A I1 B I1 C O1 D I2 E I2 F I3 G O3 H O2 J GND K L RST M -12V N +12VM P I3 Q R |
This page created by Ken Shirriff, 2015.
The information on these pages comes from a variety of sources, especially old IBM documents on bitsavers.org, as well as information from the IBM 1401 restoration team, especially Tim Coslet's SMS data and Jim Hunt's data. Images courtesy of Randall Neff. Much of this information was obtained through OCR, so don't expect complete accuracy. These pages are not associated with IBM in any way.
Creation time: Tue Mar 03 23:40:32 2015.