Personal Digital Assistant, Apple Cadillac PDA
date: label: date made
content: ca1990
name: label: maker
content: Apple Computer, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: This portable, pen-operated personal digital assistant has a black plastic case and a clear screen. A space for an electronic pen is above the screen, although the pen presently with the device does not fit into the space. The pen can be plugged in to either the left or the right side of the Cadillac.
label: Description
content: Below the screen is an Apple logo. A tag on the left of the screen reads: SEUTØ13. A tag on the back reads: SEUTØ13 (/) IC.
label: Description
content: The Cadillac is a manufacturer’s prototype of the Newton personal digital assistant – Apple would sell the Newton from 1993 until 1998. This example of the Cadillac was owned by Rodney Sol Furmanski (1963-2009), a mechanical engineer by training who worked at Claris as a test engineer. He used the object to test the Newton operating system.
label: Description
content: Source:
label: Description
content: Accession file.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Santa Clara
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Rose Furmanski in Memory of Rodney Sol Furmanski
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0023.1
label: accession number
content: 2010.0023
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0023.1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: personal digital assistant
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 in x 11 in x 1 1/2 in; 22.86 cm x 27.94 cm x 3.81 cm