Prodigy Start-up Kit, for Use with PS/1 Microcomputer
date: label: Date made
content: c 1990
name: label: maker
content: Prodigy Service Company
notes: label: Description
content: This yellow box includes the following, which appear to be unused:
label: Description
content: 1. a 5 1/4" disc labeled on its blue unopened case: IBM Users' Club and PRODIGY Software. This was designed for IBM PS/1 computers and is Version 1.0.
label: Description
content: 2. a pamphlet - Getting Started (1990)
label: Description
content: 3. a pamphlet - Getting Around (1990)
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content: 4. a pamphlet - Phone Book (1989)
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content: 5. a pamphlet - PRODIGY Service Member Agreement (1990)
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content: 6. sheets - sealed password
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content: 7. leaflet - IBM PS/1 Computer Users Club Service Agreement (1990)
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content: 8. sheet- offer for access to PRODIGY interactive personal service, which includes the IBM User' Club for the PS/1 computer - cots $9.95 a month
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content: 9. leaflet - Welcome to the IBM User's Club for the PS/1 Computer (1990)
label: Description
content: The Prodigy interactive personal service, a result of a partnership of IBM and Sears, offered a range of useful applications that, according to the box for the software, included seeing news and sports reports, checking on regional and national weather, booking airline reservations, ordering groceries, getting advice from nationally known experts, shipping, getting stock quotes and buying and selling stocks, sending and receiving electronic mail, getting entertainment news, learning from educational features, playing games, and looking up product information in Consumer Reports. For an example of the PS/1 microcomputer, see 2006.0132.13.
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: Jon Eklund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0132.29
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0132.29
label: accession number
content: 2006.0132
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Software
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/2 in x 6 1/2 in x 2 in; 16.51 cm x 16.51 cm x 5.08 cm