Ethernet Prototype Circuit Board, Wire Wrap
date: label: Date made
content: 1973
name: label: maker
content: Xerox Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This is a green printed circuit board with copper wires. It is one of two Ethernet prototype boards designed by Bob Metcalfe and David Boggs for Xerox PARC. The designers sought to interconnect Xerox Alto personal workstations, and to join these to servers and laser printers.
label: Description
content: The green plastic circuit board has an array of chips on one side. Connections coming out of the chips are wired together on the opposite side with blue wires. The board is marked: AUGAT.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Xerox PARC
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.0566.02
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0566.02
label: accession number
content: 1992.0566
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Computer Component
label: Object Name
content: microcomputer component
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 cm x 25.5 cm x 19 cm; 25/32 in x 10 1/32 in x 7 15/32 in