IBM PC Keyboard
date: label: Date made
content: 1981
name: label: maker
content: IBM
notes: label: Description
content: The IBM PC was a milestone in personal computing introduced on August 12, 1981. The keyboard, considered extremely reliable and high quality, was originally developed in North Carolina for another $10,000 IBM computer system that had been canceled. Each key was rated to be reliable to over 100 million keystrokes. Compared to the keyboards of other small computers at the time, the IBM PC keyboard far surpassed them and played a significant role in establishing the computer's excellent impression. (The importance of the keyboard was should not be dimissed since the mediocre keyboard was one of the attributed reasons to as why the IBM PC Junior flopped.) The computer was discontinued on April 2, 1987.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2007.0096.01.3
label: catalog number
content: 2007.0096.01.3
label: accession number
content: 2007.0096
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Microcomputer Peripheral
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 19 1/2 in x 9 in; 6.35 cm x 49.53 cm x 22.86 cm