WorkSlate Portable Microprinter
date: label: date made
content: 1983
name: label: user
content: Boman, Michael
label: maker
content: Convergent Technologies, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: This device has five print functions: normal (prints 40 characters across); compressed (prints 80 characters across); sideways-normal (prints twenty-four rows vertically for worksheets wider than 80 characters); sideways-compressed (prints 48 rows vertically); and typewriter, to print as you type. It automatically shuts off after 2 minutes of inactivity. Installed in the printer when received were a new roll of 4 ½” paper, a four-color pen set (black, green, blue, red pens), and a coiled RJ45 cable to connect to the WorkSlate (stored in a slot on the back of the printer).
label: Description
content: The objects in accession 2016.0253 and non-accession 2016.3134 are related.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Santa Clara
topic: label: web subject
content: Computers
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Michael Boman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0253.02
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0253.02
label: accession number
content: 2016.0253
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microcomputer peripheral, printer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall, microprinter material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall, circuitry, support material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall, paper roll material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4.5 cm x 17.5 cm x 22.2 cm; 1 25/32 in x 6 7/8 in x 8 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: paper roll: 2.7 cm x 11.5 cm; 1 1/16 in x 4 17/32 in