Tandon Personal Data Pac Portable Winchester Hard Disk-40 MB
date: label: date made
content: 1987
notes: label: Description
content: This is an advertising brochure from Tandon Computer Corp. for their Personal Data Pac. The brochure is made to look like a 2D version of a 40MB Portable Winchester Hard Disk. Tandon was named for its founder, Indian-born Sirjang Lai Tandon, who came to the United States in 1960, received degrees from Howard University, Kansas State University, and the University of Santa Clara, and worked for a time at IBM. At the time this brochure was issued in 1987, Tandon Computer Corporation was producing portable Winchester disk drives (personal data Pacs) that could run in several different pcs, as well as its own brand of personal computers.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Moorpark
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Joan Krammer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.3052.08
label: catalog number
content: 1988.3052.08
label: nonaccession number
content: 1988.3052
objectType: label: Object Name
content: advertising brochure
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: .2 cm x 10.8 cm x 17.4 cm; 3/32 in x 4 1/4 in x 6 27/32 in