Vintage 1961 Minivac 601 Digital Computer Kit - Works - Original Box - WOW For Sale
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Vintage 1961 Minivac 601 Digital Computer Kit - Works - Original Box - WOW:
$750.00
This listing is for:(1) Vintage Minivac 601
This vintage Minivac 601 is in the original box. The box is showing its age but the computer inside is in great condition. It has been tested and functions perfectly (as with anything this age, that can change without notice so this should be considered an AS IS listing).
It comes with three reference manuals, a \"correction addendum\", and two sale pamphlets. It also has the three original wire bundles. It has a small stain spot and is missing one of the rubber feet.
Note that this is an original 601 - not a renamed 6010!One of the coolest things I have ever had the pleasure of listing!More information:
The Minivac 601 digital computer kit from Scientific Development Corporation (SDC), Watertown, Massachusetts, was sold for $85.00 in 1961. The Advertisement stated that the Minivac 601 was created as a private project by Dr. Claude E. Shannon, Donner Professor of Science at MIT, and was developed by the SDC staff.
Minivac 601 was an educational aid for helping to learn how binary arithmetic and computer assembler languages worked. Although it gained fast acceptance amongst educational institutions and home hobbyists, large corporations were unwilling to buy it as a device to help their employees learn more about how computers worked. The firm selling the product repainted the device from red and blue to gunmetal-grey, changed the tolerance on some of the switches (at a very nominal cost) and renamed the device the Minivac 6010. They also increased its price to $479. All of these changes made the device acceptable to corporations as a legitimate learning device and not as just a toy. Hundreds of Minivac 6010\'s sold to businesses at that price.
