ComputerLand Name Tag
notes: label: Description
content: This plastic name tag has a dark blue background with white text that reads: JAMES EGAN. Above the name is a white ComputerLand logo. On the back is a metal pin.
label: Description
content: James Egan, Joseph Alfieri, Robert Kurland, and Thomas Vandermeulen of Facks Computer, Inc. were the owners of the first ComputerLand store in Manhattan.
label: Description
content: ComputerLand was a nationwide chain of retail computer stores. They opened their first store in 1976 in Hayward, California. By 1990 most stores had closed and in early 1999 the company officially disbanded.
label: Description
content: The objects in accession 2017.0321 and non-accession 2017.3153 are related.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: In memory of James S. Egan
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.3153.03
label: nonaccession number
content: 2017.3153
label: catalog number
content: 2017.3153.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: name tag
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3.2 cm x 7.6 cm x .6 cm; 1 1/4 in x 3 in x 1/4 in