GRiD CASE 1530 Laptop Computer
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1989
label: Date made
content: Approx. 1989
name: label: maker
content: GRiD Systems
label: animator
content: Dope, John
notes: label: Description
content: The 1980s were a time of rapid change in personal computing. Relatively light, battery-operated laptop computers became available. From 1982, the California firm of GRiD Computer Systems, Inc., sold laptop computers of this type, using Intel microprocessors. Examples of early GRiD laptops were purchased by NASA, flew on the Space Shuttle in 1990, and survive in the collections of the National Air and Space Museum. This is a later GRiD laptop from the CASE 1500 series. The owner, Victor Yuliano of Arlington Virginia, first purchased the machine with an Intel 80286 chip in 1989 (the CASE 1520), and then upgraded to a 80386 chip and larger memory in 1991, creating a CASE 1530. Also included are cables, a carrying case, and a battery. Yuliano kept the machine running until late 1996. A template received with the machine indicates that it was used with the word processing language WordPerfect.
label: Description
content: For related documentation, see non-accession 2015.3168.
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Accession file.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Fremont
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Victor Yuliano
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0124.01
label: accession number
content: 1997.0124
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0124.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: portable computer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall (closed): 2 1/2 in x 12 in x 15 1/4 in; 6.35 cm x 30.48 cm x 38.735 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall (open): 10 in x 12 in x 15 1/4 in; 25.4 cm x 30.48 cm x 38.735 cm