Function of the card:
Alloy-Storage Address Register
Listed in 1401 SMS card usage
Germanium alloy transistors were an early type of transistor, faster than the earlier grown-junction transistors.
Part number: 373000
PCB number: 490051 , hole pattern: 490000
Used in: IBM 1401
Pinout:
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A B C D E F G H J K L M N P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 1 GND 2 -6V 3 +6V 4 -12V 5 +30V 6 7 +6VM 8 -12VM |
1_2 SMS Cards, pp49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56
This page created by Ken Shirriff on Wed Sep 15 18:15:11 2021.
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. Much of this information was obtained through OCR, so don't expect complete accuracy. These pages are not associated with IBM in any way.