Microcomputer Component, Black Jack
date: label: date made
content: ca 1987
name: label: maker
content: Microperipheral Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This black plastic and metal device is a portable modular telephone jack attachment designed for computer telecommunications. Users unscrewed the mouthpiece ot a telephone handset and replaced it with the Black Jack, which had aa built in circuit card and a modular jack in the middle. A standard direct-connect cable from a modem could then be plugged into the jack, allowing transmission of signals over a telephone line.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Steven K. Roberts, "Hi-Tech Nomad," Computer Currents, August 13, 1987.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Washington, Redmond
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Jon Eklund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0132.14
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0132.14
label: accession number
content: 2006.0132
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Microcomputer Component
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 2 1/2 in; 5.08 cm x 6.35 cm
label: Measurements
content: container: 6 1/4 in x 4 1/4 in x 1 1/2 in; 15.875 cm x 10.795 cm x 3.81 cm