Commuter Computer Advertisements
date: label: date made
content: ca 1984
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content: This set of seven documents, advertisements, brochures, and newspaper clippings relating to the sale of the “Commuter Computer” made by Visual Computers Inc. includes:
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content: 1. Advertisement, “Computer Retail News,” May 15, 1984, entitled “The new portable Commuter. Carrying it can make the right retailer a pretty fat cat.” 38 cm d x29cm w (open); 19cm d x 29cm w (folded).
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content: 2. Advertisement, undated, entitled “The new portable Commuter. Carrying it can make the right retailer a pretty fat cat.” Glossy white paper with red and black ink. It measures 39cm d x 27.5 cm w (open); 27.5cm d x 19.5cm w (folded).
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content: 3. Advertisement from “The New York Times,” June 26, 1984, entitled “It can take your business places it’s never been.” It measures 27.5cm d x 16cm w.
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content: 4. Advertisement, July 8, 1984, entitled “Now you can put the power of a desk-top computer in one hand.” It measures 26.5cm d x 16.5cm w.
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content: 5. Brochure from Visual Computer Incorporated, undated. The document has three images, contains a chart comparing the features of the Commuter Computer to other popular computers, and has a list of its specifications. It is on glossy paper with red and black ink and tri-folded. It measures 28cm d x 21.6cm w.
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Evelyn Egan in memory of James S. Egan
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content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2018.3076.01
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content: 2018.3076
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content: 2018.3076.01
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content: documentation
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content: document
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.5 cm x 46 cm x 61 cm; 19/32 in x 18 1/8 in x 24 1/32 in