Ethernet Prototype Circuit Board
date: label: Date made
content: 1973
name: label: developer
content: Metcalf, Robert
label: maker
content: Xerox Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This Ethernet board is a prototype developed by Robert Metcalfe in 1973 while at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Metcalf based his idea for the Ethernet on the ALOHAnet, a packet-switching wireless radio network developed by Norman Abramson, Frank Kuo, and Richard Binder at the University of Hawaii-Manoa. The ALOHAnet sent computer data communication between the university's campuses on several islands. Metcalf improved upon ALOHAnet's design and created the "Alto ALOHA Network," a network of computers hard-wired together by cables that he soon called the Ethernet. In 1985, the Ethernet became the
label: Description
content: <A href="http://www.ieee.org/"> Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)</A> standard for connecting personal computers via a Local Area Network (LAN). Today, LANs often use WiFi, or Wireless Fidelity, a way of connecting computers without wires.
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: California, Palo Alto
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
label: Exhibition
content: Inventing In America
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Xerox PARC
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.0566.01
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0566.01
label: accession number
content: 1992.0566
objectType: label: Object Name
content: circuit board
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 3 3/4 in x 1 1/4 in; 15.24 cm x 9.525 cm x 3.175 cm