Renseignements généraux

Nº de série

387670

Nº de partie

1

Nombre total de parties

3

Ou

S/O

Brevets

S/O

Description générale

.1 SYNTHETIC WITH METAL HARDWARE & SOME METAL WORKING PARTS/.2 SYNTHETIC WITH METAL TRIM, HARDWARE & SOME WORKING PARTS/.3 SYNTHETIC WITH PAPER LABELS

Dimensions

Remarque : Cette information reflète la taille générale pour l’entreposage et ne représente pas nécessairement les véritables dimensions de l’objet.

Longueur

59,0 cm

Largeur

51,0 cm

Hauteur

50,0 cm

Épaisseur

S/O

Poids

S/O

Diamètre

S/O

Volume

S/O

Lexique

Groupe

Technologie informatique

Catégorie

Dispositifs numériques

Sous-catégorie

S/O

Fabricant

Ou

AES Data

Pays

Canada

État/province

Québec

Ville

Montréal

Contexte

Pays

Worldwide

État/province

Inconnu

Période

1977 TO LATE 1980'S

Canada

DEVELOPED AND MANUFACTURED IN CANADA BY CANADIAN COMPANY AES DATA. THIS EXAMPLE WAS USED IN CANADA BY THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. AES DATA LTD. OF MONTREAL WAS FORMED IN 1974 BY STEVEN DORSEY TO DESIGN AND MARKET STAND ALONE WORD PROCESSING SYSTEMS. ITS FIRST PRODUCT WAS THE AES 90 IN 1974. BY 1980 AES CLAIMED IT CONTROLLED ALMOST 80 PER CENT OF THE CANADIAN MARKET FOR "VIDEO SCREEN TEXT EDITORS" AND EXPORTED PRODUCTS TO MORE THAN 50 COUNTRIES.

Fonction

PROGRAMMABLE MACHINE THAT ACCEPTS, PROCESSES, & DISPLAYS DATA; THIS SPECIALISED COMPUTER ENABLED USER TO CREATE, STORE, REVISE, & OUTPUT TEXT. THIS TYPE ALSO HAD COMMUNICATION CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE COMMUNICATION WITH OTHER LOCAL & REMOTE COMPUTERS.

Technique

INTRODUCED IN OCTOBER 1977, THE AES PLUS WORD PROCESSOR WAS THE SECOND SUCCESSOR TO THE AES 90. THIS UNIT IS THE EXTENDED DISK OPTION (XD) AES PLUS, INTRODUCED IN JULY 1980. IT CONNECTED TO AN EXTERNAL DISK DRIVE THAT ACCOMMODATED LARGER CAPACITY EIGHT-INCH (20.3 CM) STORAGE DISKS IN PLACE OF THE INTERNAL 5.25 INCH (13.3 cm) TWIN DISK DRIVES THAT WERE STANDARD ON THE ORIGINAL AES PLUS. IN ADDITION TO ITS TEXT EDITING FUNCTIONS AND VARIETY OF SOFTWARE OPTIONS FOR DIFFERENT APPLICATIONS, THE AES PLUS HAD ASYNCHRONOUS AND SYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATION ABILITIES AND COULD BE USED WITH AES TYPEREADER, AN OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION (OCR) UNIT THAT READS TYPED TEXT.

Notes sur la région

Inconnu

Détails

Marques

.1 ON FRONT: 'AES plus'/ LABEL: 'SERIAL NUMBER/ 387670'/ STANDARD KEYBOARD & NUMBER PAD/ ON BACK: 'MODEL/ 103/ Aes Data Ltee Ltd/ Montreal Canada'/ MUSEUM INV. LABEL '18878'/ VARIOUS INDICATIONS AROUND CONNECTIONS ON BACK/.2 ON FRONT: 'AES'/ MFR'S PLATE ON BOTTOM: 'AES MODEL 103 XD/ 117V 60HZ 4.0A./ Serial No. 894/ AES Data Ltd./Ltee./ Montreal Canada'/ INSTRUCTIONS ON BACK IN BOTH ENGLISH & GERMAN/ PLATE: '115V'/.3: 'AES/ plus/ SOFTWARE/ Extended Disk/ Repaginate/ English/ Bilingual/ Ref: 113-2101-02/ Contents of this diskette are copyrighted/ by A.E.S. Data Ltd. (1980)'

Manque

DISK DRIVE IN .1

Fini

.1 &.2 CREAM WITH BLACK TRIM/.3 BLACK

Décoration

.1 MODEL PLATE AFFIXED TO FRONT/.2 MFR'S NAME STAMPED ON FRONT