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Perkin-Elmer employees with Scientific Data Systems unit

  • 1966-Mar

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Group photograph of unidentified Perkin-Elmer Corporation employees gathered around a Scientific Data Systems (SDS) 9300 unit. Founded by Max Palevsky and Robert Beck in September 1961, Scientific Data Systems manufactured computers capable of large-scale scientific computations. Notably, the company was an early adopter of integrated circuits in computer design and the first to employ silicon transistors.

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  • Box 4

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Perkin-Elmer Corporation. “Perkin-Elmer Employees with Scientific Data Systems Unit,” March 1966. Photographs from the Perkin-Elmer-Applera Collection, Box 4. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/6969z1673.

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