Commodore VIC-20 Microcomputer
date: label: date made
content: 1979-1981
name: label: maker
content: Commodore Business Machines, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: This microcomputer, manufactured by Commodore, has serial number V045518. It consists of a CPU / keyboard, power supply box, RF
label: Description
content: modulator, video cable, another small metal box with cable
label: Description
content: (function unknown, but may be the switchbox), another cable
label: Description
content: (function unknown) and the operating manual. All are contained in
label: Description
content: the original box. The CPU / keyboard is in a rectangular, plastic housing, cream-colored with brown and tan keys.
label: Description
content: The donor dated the object to 1979, Williams's article would suggest a later date.
label: Description
content: References:
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content: Bruce Makoto Arnold, “Twenty-Two Columns of Lowbrow Revolution: The Commodore VIC-20 and the Beginning of the Home Computer Era,” Journal in Humanities, 2017, vol. 6 #1, pp. 11-20.
label: Description
content: Gregg Williams, "The Commodore VIC 20 Microcomputer: A Low-Cost, High-Performance Consumer Computer," Byte, May, 1981, vol. 6 #5, pp. 46-64.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Jeffrey T. Vogel
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0249.02
label: accession number
content: 1987.0249
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0249.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Microcomputer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 16 in x 8 1/4 in; 8.255 cm x 40.64 cm x 20.955 cm