Dell OptiPlex GX520 with CPU
date: label: Date made
content: 2005
label: Date made
content: September 2005
name: label: maker
content: Dell Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: In 2005, Dell Computers opened its largest and most modern factory in the world - in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The company's challenge was remaining competitive while paying American labor rates.
label: Description
content: Applying advanced manufacturing techniques and just-in-time inventory control, workers built new computers in seconds. Software was then loaded, and the products were immediately shipped. This increased efficiency - as well as lower transportation costs compared to computers sent from overseas - kept the factory profitable. This Dell OptiPlex GX520 was among the first produced by the new Winston-Salem plant in 2005; one of twenty first run systems.
label: Description
content: The chassis is empty, instead of being loaded with software that would never have been used. A ceremonial brass plate affixed to the front reads "First Edition Computer DELL Winston Salem, North Carolina September 2005."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dell Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2007.0042.04
label: catalog number
content: 2007.0042.04
label: accession number
content: 2007.0042
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Microcomputer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 in x 14 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in; 40.64 cm x 36.83 cm x 11.43 cm