LGP-30
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thumb|Librascope LGP-30 (with cover in place). thumb|An LGP-30 in use at Manhattan College (1965). thumb|250px|LGP-30 at The Computer Museum, Boston with cover removed. Control panel is at top center, to the left of the memory drum. The LGP-30, standing for Librascope General Purpose and then Librascope General Precision, is an early off-the-shelf computer. It was manufactured by the Librascope company of Glendale, California (a division of General Precision Inc.), and sold and serviced by the Royal Precision Electronic Computer Company, a joint venture with the Royal McBee division of the Roy
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15 sectionsContents
- Design
- Specifications
- Programming
- Instruction set
- ALGOL 30
- DICTATOR
- Starting the machine
- RPC 4000
- LGP-21
- Notable uses
- Simulation
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
thumb|Librascope LGP-30 (with cover in place). thumb|An LGP-30 in use at Manhattan College (1965). thumb|250px|LGP-30 at The Computer Museum, Boston with cover removed. Control panel is at top center, to the left of the memory drum. The LGP-30, standing for Librascope General Purpose and then Librascope General Precision, is an early off-the-shelf computer. It was manufactured by the Librascope company of Glendale, California (a division of General Precision Inc.), and sold and serviced by the Royal Precision Electronic Computer Company, a joint venture with the Royal McBee division of the Royal Typewriter Company. The LGP-30 was first manufactured in 1956, at a retail price of $47,000, .
The LGP-30 was commonly referred to as a desk computer. Its height, width, and depth, excluding the typewriter shelf, was . It weighed about , and was mounted on sturdy casters which facilitated moving the unit.