Microcomputer, IBM ThinkPad 730T
date: label: date made
content: ca 1993
label: date made
content: ca 1994
name: label: maker
content: IBM
notes: label: Description
content: GO Corporation was founded in Silicon Valley in 1987 to produce a "PenPoint" operating system that used a pen-based interface (rather than a keyboard or facsimilie thereof). Several products resulted, including this IBM ThinkPad. The pieces of the ThinkPad fit in a hefty black suitcase lined with foam. They include:
label: Description
content: 1. The ThinkPad itself - a screen with a black case that fits into a connection near the bottom of the suitcase.
label: Description
content: 2. a stylus
label: Description
content: 3. two battery packs that fit below the ThinkPad
label: Description
content: 4. a power cord to the left of the ThinkPad.
label: Description
content: 5. a Kodak DICONIX 180si printer, that fits sideways next to the ThinkPad.
label: Description
content: 6. an attachment for a Phone and a Line, inside the lid of the suitcase at the far right.
label: Description
content: This is a relatively early version of an IBM product developed in close collaboration with Japanese staff. It is a tablet not a laptop - there is no keyboard for data entry.
label: Description
content: According to the donor, State Farm Insurance Comapny purchased this kind of device from IBM for its field adjusters.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: David M. Fields
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2008.0084.03
label: catalog number
content: 2008.0084.03
label: accession number
content: 2008.0084
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microcomputer, portable
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 cm x 54 cm x 42 cm; 6 11/16 in x 21 1/4 in x 16 17/32 in