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- OBJECT TYPE
- PERSONAL/INTEGRATED CIRCUIT/WORD PROCESSOR
- DATE
- Unknown
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1994.0001.003
- MANUFACTURER
- Digital Equipment Co.
- MODEL
- DECMATE II/ PC27-8-A
- LOCATION
- United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- WF35789
- Part Number
- 3
- Total Parts
- 5
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- SYNTHETIC CASING; METAL & SYNTHETIC COMPONENTS
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 48.6 cm
- Width
- 37.0 cm
- Height
- 16.5 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Computing Technology
- Category
- Digital computing devices
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Digital
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- THIS UNIT WAS USED BY NMST COLLECTIONS MANAGEMENT CLERICAL STAFF C. 1980-1989
- Canada
-
EXAMPLE OF COMPUTER EQUIPMENT FIRST PURCHASED FOR USE IN THE AUTOMATION OF NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY'S OPERATING & ARTIFACT DATABASE RECORDS. ACQUIRED AS PART OF LARGE PACKAGE OF COMPUTER EQ. & SOFTWARE PURCHASED BY T. PAULL, CURATOR FOR USE BY THE MUSEUM. - Function
-
AUXILIARY DATA STORAGE DEVICE, USED FOR LARGE QUANTITY AND/OR LONG TERM STORAGE ON MAGNETIC DISK. - Technical
-
Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- Mfr's label in lower right back corner reads: ‘digital/ Made in U.S.A./ MODEL PC27-8-A/ SN: WF35789/ HZ 50/60/ V ~120/220-240/ W 220/ A 3.0/2.0/ 3620215-6'; Yellow voltage warning label appears above. All connections labeled.; Mfr's label with CSA UFL disclaimers applied to base; digital/ DECmate/ II' appears in upper left front corner, beside on-off switch; disc drives labeled "0", ‘1"; blue & white property inventory sticker in lower front right corner reads ‘N.M.C./M.N.C./ 24965'; three handwritten Collections Management labels taped to unit top.
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- BEIGE OR PALE-GREY CRINKLE-TEXTURED FINISH ON CASING (NB: HAS YELLOWED OVER TIME)
- Decoration
- N/A
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Digital Equipment Co., Drive, disk, Unknown Date, Artifact no. 1994.0001, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/item/1994.0001.003/
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