Harris 1500 Editorial Input Terminal
date: label: date made
content: c 1972
label: date made
content: c 1973
label: date made
content: ca 1973
name: label: maker
content: Harris-Intertype Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This video display terminal, sold under the name Harris 1500, was first used in 1973 at the Times-Democrat, a newspaper in Davenport, Iowa. This “dumb” terminal (it had no internal memory) was connected to a DEC PDP-11/20 server. News reporters wrote their stories on these terminals instead of on paper. Finished stories, were reviewed by the editors electronically, then sent for printing. The Times-Democrat (soon renamed the Quad-City Times) was the one of the first newspapers to fully convert to a word processing system.
label: Description
content: According to an article in the New York Times on Feb. 17, 1972, this terminal cost about $5,000.
label: Description
content: In the case below the screen are five white plastic switches (TAB SET, TAB CLEAR, COMM LOCAL, CLEAR, and POWER). Left of the QWERTY keyboard are five orange function keys, and to the right are fourteen orange function keys. The glass screen in front of the CRT (cathode ray tube) has a 1 cm high space between the top of the glass and the case’s screen opening.
label: Description
content: Taped to the terminal on the left side of the display screen, is a black and white image of a penguin. On the right side of the screen are the remains of three white rub-on numbers--1, 2, and possibly a 9.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: “Harris-Intertype Selling New Device,” <I>New York Times</I>, February 17, 1972, p. 55.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Computers
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of William Theobald
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0143.01
label: accession number
content: 2017.0143
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0143.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: minicomputer peripheral
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (display screen material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 29 cm x 46 cm x 53.5 cm; 11 13/32 in x 18 1/8 in x 21 1/16 in