Microcomputer Component, MITS 88-VI Circuit Board
date: label: date made
content: ca 1975
name: label: maker
content: Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems
notes: label: Description
content: This plastic circuit board is the MITS 88-VI (RTC) board. That is to say, it was made by the Albuqueque, New Mexico, firm of MITS to serve as a vector interrupt / real time clock board for use on microcomputers like the Altair. Tthe clock/time function was obtained either from the 2MHz signal reaching the S-100 bus (pin 49) or the 60Hz signal from the power line. The date was calculated from hardware.
label: Description
content: The board is marked: MITS, inx. (/) ** - VI (RTS) REV. 0 (/) PAT. PEND. (/) COPYRIGHT 1975.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: http://www.s100computers.com/Hardware%20Folder/MITS/Clock/Clock.htm, accessed November 6, 2023.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bruce Gustafson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0691.15
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0691.15
label: accession number
content: 1987.0691
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microcomputer component
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: .75 cm x 25.5 cm x 13.6 cm; 9/32 in x 10 1/32 in x 5 11/32 in