Documentation, IBM PC Technical Reference
date: label: date made
content: 1981
name: label: maker
content: IBM
notes: label: Description
content: This IBM manual entitled "Technical Reference" is in a blue binder that fits in a gray cardboard case that is part of IBM's Personal Computer Hardware Reference Library.
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content: According to the preface: "The IBM Personal Computer Technical Reference Manual is designed to provide hardware design and interface information. This publication also provides Basic Input Output System (BIOS) information as well as programming support matter. This manual is intended for programmers, engineers involved in hardware and software design, designers, and interested persons who have a need to know how the IBM Personal Computer is designed and works. This manual has three sections:
label: Description
content: - Section 1, "Hardware Overview," features an overview of the system as a whole calling out specific items such as the System Unit, Keyboard, IBM Monochrome Display and the 80 CPS Matrix Printer.
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content: - Section 2, "Hardware", contains a description for each functional part of the system. This section also contains specifications for power, timing and interface. Programming considerations are supported by coding tables, command codes and registers.
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content: - Section 3, "Rom and System Usage," describes BIOS as well as how to use BIOS, interrupt vector listings, memory map, vectors with special meanings, a cassette section, a keyboard encoding section, and a set of Low Memory Maps.
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content: - Appendices, to address the ROM BIOS listing, an instruction set, logic diagrams, and expanded charts used to support specific hardware descriptions."
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content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Carl Deutsch
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.3085.03
label: catalog number
content: 2016.3085.03
label: nonaccession number
content: 2016.3085
label: model number
content: 6025005
label: model number
content: 6025144
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content: 6025008
objectType: label: Object Name
content: documentation
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/2 in x 8 in x 2 in; 24.13 cm x 20.32 cm x 5.08 cm