Columbia Data Products MPC1600 Microcomputer
date: label: date made
content: 1983
name: label: maker
content: Columbia Data Products, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: The MPC1600 (Multi-Personal Computer) is a microcomputer, made by Columbia Data Products, Inc., in 1983. The company stated that a Multi-Personal Computer was easily transportable and “capable of fulfilling all your personal needs from word processing to business applications”. The standard MPC was sold with two 5 1/4” floppy disk drives, a 16-bit processor, 128Kb RAM, 2 RS-232 serial ports, a Centronics parallel printer port, a Winchester Controller interface, a keyboard interface, and 8 IBM-PC compatible expansion slots. The MPC could be upgraded by replacing a 5 1/4” floppy drive with a 10Mb Winchester hard drive. The consumer had a choice of operating systems -- MS-DOS, CP/M-86, or MP/M-86.
label: Description
content: This microcomputer has an off-white case, two 5 1/4” floppy disk drives, two RS-232 serial ports, a Centronics parallel printer port, and a keyboard connector. The keyboard has the basic typewriter keys (alphabet, numbers, punctuation), and escape, control and alternate keys, a numeric keypad to the right, and a double row of 10 functions keys on the left. It supports either a monochrome or color monitor.
label: Description
content: For other parts to the machine, see the remainder of accession 2016.0271. For related software and documentation, see 2016.3148.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Columbia
topic: label: web subject
content: Computers
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Simon Babil
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0272.01
label: accession number
content: 2016.0272
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0272.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: personal computer
label: Object Name
content: multi-personal compuer
label: Object Name
content: microcomputer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall, microcomputer material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall, microcomputer material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13.7 cm x 76.9 cm x 38.1 cm; 5 13/32 in x 30 9/32 in x 15 in
label: Measurements
content: cpu: 13.7 cm x 57.5 cm x 38.1 cm; 5 13/32 in x 22 5/8 in x 15 in
label: Measurements
content: keyboard: 5.4 cm x 45 cm x 19.4 cm; 2 1/8 in x 17 23/32 in x 7 5/8 in
label: Measurements
content: power cord: 217.8 cm; 85 3/4 in