Blackberry
date: label: date made
content: 2000
name: label: maker
content: Research In Motion
notes: label: Description
content: Research in Motion (RIM) produced this Blackberry model 957 Internet Edition in 2000. The first Blackberry was introduced in 1999 as a two-way pager before pivoting to become a device featuring an always-connected e-mail with personal digital assistant functionality. The Blackberry 957 came with 5 megabytes of flash storage, 512 kilobytes of random access memory, with an Intel 386 processor running at 20 megahertz. Blackberrys came with applications that included e-mail, address book, calendar, alarm, calculator, memo pad, and a task list that could by synchronized with a user's PC through the included dock. The Blackberry 957 Internet Edition was one of the first devices that allowed mobile web use and e-mail, now ubiquitous in smart phones.
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content: American Enterprise
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content: Computers & Business Machines
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Daniel Henderson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0095.030
label: accession number
content: 2003.0095
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0095.030
objectType: label: Object Name
content: personal digital assistant
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: vinyl (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11.6 cm x 7.8 cm x 1.8 cm; 4 9/16 in x 3 1/16 in x 11/16 in