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Title: Spectra 70 press release
Date(s): 1964-12-08
Contributor(s): RCA Corporation (associated name), RCA Corporation. Solid State Division (associated name)
Collection ID: RCA Solid State Division records (Accession 2464.75)
Hagley ID: AVD_246475_003_008_001
Collection: RCA Computing Collection

Title: Spectra 70 team
Date(s): 1965
Contributor(s): RCA Corporation (associated name), RCA Corporation. Solid State Division (associated name)
Description: Accompanying note: Ed McCollister - VP of Spectra 70; Art Beard - Chief Engineer of Spectra 70; Nat Marshall - Reports to Beard; Jack O'Donnell - Reports to Marshall; Sid Cooper - Unit Manager, Reports to O'Donnell. The woman and the men in the back row, other than Beard, are all engineers in my [Sid Cooper?] group that designed the Spectra 70 power supply, shown in the photo.
Collection ID: RCA Solid State Division records (Accession 2464.75)
Hagley ID: AVD_246475_003_008_002
Collection: RCA Computing Collection

Title: Spectra 70
Date(s): 1966
Contributor(s): Radio Corporation of America (originator), Radio Corporation of America. RCA Victor Record Division (associated name), Radio Corporation of America. RCA Victor Division (associated name), Radio-Victor Corporation of America (associated name), Barnum, Frederick O., III (former owner), RCA Corporation (associated name)
Collection ID: Frederick O. Barnum III collection of RCA Victor Company negatives (Accession 1995.220)
Hagley ID: AVD_1995220_041_002
Collection: RCA Computing Collection, Frederick O. Barnum III collection of RCA Victor Company negatives

Title: Spectra 70
Date(s): 1965
Contributor(s): RCA Corporation (associated name), RCA Corporation. Solid State Division (associated name)
Description: The Spectra 70 power supply consisted of three cabinets to provide 700 amperes at 5v, using all solid state regulation.
Collection ID: RCA Solid State Division records (Accession 2464.75)
Hagley ID: AVD_246475_003_008_004
Collection: RCA Computing Collection

Title: Computerized pool game
Date(s): 1970
Contributor(s): RCA Corporation (associated name), RCA Laboratories (associated name)
Description: Text from reverse side: RCA 5738. RCA Labs. 'Scientists at the RCA's Princeton (N.J.) Laboratories use a TV set to play a computerized version of one of man's oldest games -- pool. When 'cue ball' is touched by light pen, an RCA Spectra 70/25 computer sets balls in motion by solving laws of pool ball motion and ball and table friction at the rate of 100,000 computations a second. Computerized pool demonstrates how computers can be used to reduce complex theories into understandable visual...
Show moreText from reverse side: RCA 5738. RCA Labs. 'Scientists at the RCA's Princeton (N.J.) Laboratories use a TV set to play a computerized version of one of man's oldest games -- pool. When 'cue ball' is touched by light pen, an RCA Spectra 70/25 computer sets balls in motion by solving laws of pool ball motion and ball and table friction at the rate of 100,000 computations a second. Computerized pool demonstrates how computers can be used to reduce complex theories into understandable visual presentations, the RCA scientists explain.'
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Collection ID: RCA News and Information Department photographs (Accession 2464.68)
Hagley ID: AVD_246468_007_025_001
Collection: RCA Computing Collection

Title: Spectra 70
Date(s): 1965
Contributor(s): RCA Corporation (associated name), RCA Corporation. Solid State Division (associated name)
Description: The Spectra 70 power supply consisted of three cabinets to provide 700 amperes at 5v, using all solid state regulation.
Collection ID: RCA Solid State Division records (Accession 2464.75)
Hagley ID: AVD_246475_003_008_003
Collection: RCA Computing Collection

Title: Spectra 70
Date(s): 1965
Contributor(s): RCA Corporation (associated name), RCA Corporation. Solid State Division (associated name)
Collection ID: RCA Solid State Division records (Accession 2464.75)
Hagley ID: AVD_246475_003_007_002
Collection: RCA Computing Collection

Title: Spectra 70
Date(s): 1965
Contributor(s): RCA Corporation (associated name), RCA Corporation. Solid State Division (associated name)
Description: The Spectra 70 power supply consisted of three cabinets to provide 700 amperes at 5v, using all solid state regulation.
Collection ID: RCA Solid State Division records (Accession 2464.75)
Hagley ID: AVD_246475_003_008_006
Collection: RCA Computing Collection

Title: Spectra 70
Date(s): 1965
Contributor(s): RCA Corporation (associated name), RCA Corporation. Solid State Division (associated name)
Collection ID: RCA Solid State Division records (Accession 2464.75)
Hagley ID: AVD_246475_003_007_004
Collection: RCA Computing Collection

Title: Spectra 70
Date(s): 1965
Contributor(s): RCA Corporation (associated name), RCA Corporation. Solid State Division (associated name)
Description: The Spectra 70 power supply consisted of three cabinets to provide 700 amperes at 5v, using all solid state regulation.
Collection ID: RCA Solid State Division records (Accession 2464.75)
Hagley ID: AVD_246475_003_008_005
Collection: RCA Computing Collection

Title: Ed McCollister letter to Datamation
Date(s): 1977-01
Contributor(s): RCA Corporation (associated name), RCA Corporation. Solid State Division (associated name), McCollister, Ed S. (correspondent)
Description: Letter to the editors about Spectra 70 compatibility for publication in the January, 1977 issue of Datamation.
Collection ID: RCA Solid State Division records (Accession 2464.75)
Hagley ID: AVD_246475_003_008_007
Collection: RCA Computing Collection

Title: Spectra 70
Date(s): 1965
Contributor(s): RCA Corporation (associated name), RCA Corporation. Solid State Division (associated name)
Collection ID: RCA Solid State Division records (Accession 2464.75)
Hagley ID: AVD_246475_003_007_003
Collection: RCA Computing Collection

Title: Spectra 70 team
Date(s): 1964
Contributor(s): RCA Corporation (associated name), RCA Corporation. Solid State Division (associated name)
Description: Notes on reverse: L-R Nat Marshall (top head, reported to Art Beard chief engineer of Spectra 70), Bob Webb (E.E.), [no name] (math B.S. Mech. Eng.), Joe Shrock (E.E.), Joe Facenda (technician), Sidney Cooper. Not all the group. Building 10 or 13 - adjoining buildings with walkway).
Collection ID: RCA Solid State Division records (Accession 2464.75)
Hagley ID: AVD_246475_003_007_001
Collection: RCA Computing Collection