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- OBJECT TYPE
- FLOPPY/5.25 IN./DUAL
- DATE
- 1982
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1990.0234.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Commodore Business Machines Inc.
- MODEL
- CBM 8250
- LOCATION
- United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- MU001442
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 3
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- METAL CASING & CHASSIS, PARTS/ SYNTHETIC DISK DRIVE ACCESSES & PARTS/ RUBBER FEET
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 38.5 cm
- Width
- 38.2 cm
- Height
- 18.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Computing Technology
- Category
- Digital peripheral devices
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Commodore
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- 1982+
- Canada
-
AMERICAN MADE EQUIPMENT USED BY A SMALL CANADIAN COMPUTER SOFTWARE WRITING FIRM OPERATED BY THE GURNEYS. THEY USED THIS MACHINE WITH A SUPERPET COMPUTER (900233) TO DESIGN COMPUTER ASSISTEDLEARNING PROGRAMMES UNDER CONTRACT TO THE ONTARIO DEPT. OF EDUCATION C.1985. - Function
-
AN AUXILIARY DATA STORAGE DEVICE USED FOR LARGE QUANTITY AND/OR LONG TERM STORAGE OF DATA OR PROGRAMS ON MAGNETIC DISK. - Technical
-
AN EXAMPLE OF A PERIPHERAL MEMORY DEVICE FOR A MICROCOMPUTER, WHICH CAN ACCOMMODATE TWO 5.25 IN. FLOPPY DISKS - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- DECAL ON BACK WITH MFR'S LOGO & READING 'commodore/ MODEL NO./ DUAL FLOPPY 8250M/ 117V 0.5A 60Hz/ SERIAL NO. MU001442/ MADE IN U.S.A.'/ WHITE LETTERING ON TEXTURED BLACK SYNTHETIC BAND ACROSS FRONT WITH MFR'S LOGO & READING 'Commodore CBM dual drive/ Model 8250 floppy disk'/ WHITE LETTERING LABELLING DRIVES
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- TEXTURED BEIGE PAINTED CASING/ BLACK ENAMEL PAINTED CHASSIS/ BLACK SYNTHETIC DISK ACCESSES/ BLACK FEET/ GRAY & BLACK POWER CORDS
- Decoration
- N/A
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Commodore Business Machines Inc., Drive, disk, 1982, Artifact no. 1990.0234, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1990.0234.001/
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