HP 250 Computer System Desk and Keyboard
date: label: date made
content: ca 1980
name: label: maker
content: Hewlett-Packard Company
notes: label: Description
content: In 1978, Hewlett-Packard Corporation introduced a relatively compact, "easy-to-use, high-performance business computer," sold as the HP250. Its exterior was ergonomically designed to fit into an office setting. The top of the desk curved and has the built-in keyboard (1989.0023.01.1). An adjustable monitor (1989.0023.01.2) sat atop the desk, showing programs and data entered. The central processing unit (1989.0023.01.3) rolled under the desktop on the right side. A foam and metal endpiece (1989.0023.01.6) fit over the cpu at the side. The printer (1989.0023.01.5) sat left of the keyboard and had its own stand. The disk drive (1989.0023.01.4) rolled beneath the printer.
label: Description
content: Hewlett Packard provided extensive documentation to assist those programming the machine (see 1989.3006).
label: Description
content: This example of the HP 250 was used at the American Consulting Engineers Council until at least 1985.
label: Description
content: References:
label: Description
content: Accession File.
label: Description
content: Hewlett-Packard Company, <I>HP 250 The easy-to-use, high-performance business computer General Information Manual</>, Palo Alto, California, 1980, esp. pp. 5-12. A copy of this document is available online from the HP Computer Museum.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Colorado, Fort Collins
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Jack R. Warner
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0023.01.1
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0023.01.1
label: accession number
content: 1989.0023
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Computer Desk Top/Keyboard
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 6.4 cm x 85.1 cm x 172.7 cm; 2 1/2 in x 33 1/2 in x 68 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 53 in x 47 in x 82 in; 134.62 cm x 119.38 cm x 208.28 cm