IBM 7090
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The IBM 7090 is a second-generation transistorized version of the earlier IBM 709 vacuum-tube mainframe computer that was designed for "large-scale scientific and technological applications". The 7090
IBM 7151 Console Control Unit for 7090
IBM 7090 console at the System Source Computer Museum
IBM 7151-2 Console Control Unit for 7094 showing additional index register displays in a distinctive extra box on top. Note "Multiple Tag Mode" light in the top center.
An IBM 7090 at the NASA Ames Research Center in 1961, with the director of Ames and several IBM employees. The IBM 7151 Console Control Unit is on the right with two banks of IBM 729 magnetic tape drives in back. The IBM 711 card reader is in front of the man and woman at right.
IBM 700/7000 series
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The IBM 700/7000 series is a series of large-scale computer systems that were made by IBM through the 1950s and early 1960s. The series includes several different, incompatible processor architectures
IBM 7090
…709 vacuum-tube mainframe computer that was designed for "large-scale scientific and technological applications". The 7090 is the fourth member of the IBM 700/7000 series scientific computers. The first 7090 installation was in December 1959. In 1960, a typical system sold for $2.9 million (equivalent to $23 million in…
An IBM 704 mainframe at NACA in 1957
IBM 701 operator's console
IBM 7090's at NASA's Project Mercury, 1962
Logic module from a 700 series IBM computer featuring 5965 vacuum tubes