Omnitec Acoustic Modem Model 701B
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1978
name: label: maker
content: Omnitec
notes: label: Description
content: A modem is a device that provides modulation and demodulation (hence modem) to facilitate communication between remote terminals and a central system computer. The Omnitec modem is an early example of acoustic modem with telephone coupler. It is from about 1978.
label: Description
content: A mark on a tag on the tan plastic front of the case reads: OMNITEC (/) ANYTRONICS CORPORATION. A tag on the bottom. reads: OMNITEC TELEPHONE COUPLER.
label: Description
content: This example of the device was used at the Freer Gallery of Art.
label: Description
content: For instructions, see 1988.0610.02.01. These are dated 1970.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Freer Gallery of Art
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0610.02
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0610.02
label: accession number
content: 1988.0610
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Microcomputer Peripheral
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 6 1/4 in x 12 1/4 in; 13.97 cm x 15.875 cm x 31.115 cm