Specifications for Wang 360SE
Manufacturer: Wang Laboratories Model Number: 360SE Serial Number: Two Units in Museum #1: 380521 #2: 380708 (Thanks to Mr. Arnold Allen for Donation) Date of Manufacture: #1: May, 1969 #2: July, 1969 Manufactured In: USA, Tewksbury, Massachusetts Original Price: $3990 (360SE Electronics Package) $950 (360KT Trig Keyboard) $500 (360K Keyboard) $470 (320K Keyboard) Total Cost as Shown: $6860 Weight: 25 Pounds (Electronics Package) 6 Pounds (Model 300K Keyboard) Size: 25" Wide, 5 1/2" Deep, 7 1/2" High (Electronics Package) 10 1/4" Wide, 8" Deep, 4 1/2" High (Model 300K Keyboard) Power Requirement: 100 Watts, 115VAC Display Technology: Nixie Tube, Discrete Neon Tube Decimal Point Indicators Digit Tubes: Wang 340-0004 or National Electronics NL-840 Sign Tube: Wang 340-0005 or National Electronics NL-843 Logic Technology: All Transistor, 32 Plug-In Circuit Cards Non-Volatile Magnetic Core Memory for all Register Storage 2K bits total, 4 planes of 32x16 Digits of Capacity: 10 plus sign, No zero-suppression Decimal Modes: Full Floating Arithmetic Logic: Arithmetic, Two Accumulators Unusual "Enter" for 1st Operand of Multiply/Divide Uses logarithms internally for multiplication and division Automatic Accumulation of Multiplicand, Multiplier or Product Math Functions: Depends on Keyboard Unit: Four Function All Units (300K and above) Square Root, Square (310K) Square Root, Square, e^X, Log (320K, 360K) Square Root, Square, e^X, Log, Sin, Cos, ArcSin, ArcTan (360KT/360KR) Constant: Yes, Continuous Memories: Depends on Keyboard Unit: 360K, 360KT/KR have access to 4 Store/Recall Registers Magnetic Core-based Non Volatile Memory Programmable: Yes, with Model 370($1200) or Model 380($1500) Keyboard/Programmer Unit Peripherals: Card Programmer (Model CP-1, $800) Card Programmer (Model CP-2) Column Printer (Model 301) Item Counter (Model IC-1, $120) Data Storage Unit, 16 Registers (Model 372, $1000) Data Storage Unit, 64 Registers (Model 373, $2500) Input/Output Writer, ASR-33 Teletype (Model 376, $1400) ASR-33 TTY Input/Output Writer Control (Model 377, $1400) Output Writer, IBM Selectric (Model 379-7, $1000) IBM Selectric Output Writer Control (Model 379-5, $800) Universal Interface, Analog/Digital I/O (Model 379-8, $2500) CRT Display Control (Model 379-9, $1250) CRT Display, Storage Tube (Model 379-10, $1500) Trig Pack (Model 379-12, $1200) Card Reader Interface (Model 379-13, $800) Other Features: SE Electronics Package is a Multi-User Calculator Up to four remote keyboard/display 'consoles' operate simultaneously in round-robin timeshared fashion.
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