DISK 1 Technical Manual
date: label: date made
content: 1982
name: label: maker
content: CompuPro
notes: label: Description
content: This is the technical manual for a floppy disk controller called DISK 1 that was sold by CompuPro for its microcomputers. Floppy disks were a means of entering data onto a computer that was common in the late 1970s and 1980s. This circuit board, meant for a microcomputer with an S-100 bus, boasted "24 bit DMA" [direct memory access]. There are detailed instructions and drawings.
label: Description
content: The document was received with a CompuPro Goodbout S-100 microcomputer that belonged to author and journalist Jerry Pournelle. For materials relating to that acquisition, see 1989.0070.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Jerry Pournelle
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.3019.10
label: catalog number
content: 1989.3019.10
label: nonaccession number
content: 1989.3019
objectType: label: Object Name
content: documentation, Godbout S100
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 11 in; 21.59 cm x 27.94 cm