This page describes the IBM SMS card "HW", and is part of the SMS card database.

Function of the card:
Voltage Mode Indicator Driver
Alloy-Indicators, Lamp, VM

Germanium alloy transistors were an early type of transistor, faster than the earlier grown-junction transistors.

Part number:371048

Used in:IBM 729V,IBM 1410

Symbol:DI

DI: Driver, Indicator. Driver operating into an indicating device.

References:
IBM Standard Modular System, Component Circuits, p219.
1410_SMS_VOL_1.pdf/1410_SMS_VOL_2.pdf, p2061.
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 23:40:34 2015.