JCAD Digitizer Tablet
date: label: Date made
content: Around 1985
name: label: maker
content: Jameco Electronics
notes: label: Description
content: The JCAD digitizing tablet was designed for used with Auto CAD (Computer Aided Design) software programs running on personal computers. The JCAD could be used with both AutoCAD, developed by Autodesk, and Summagraphics. A digitizer, or tablet, is a flat surface that charts the movement of a pointing device such as a puck or stylus. It works as an absolute pointing device, in which each point on the tablet corresponds to a specific location on the drawing. One advantage of a digitizer is that it can be configured to provide quick access to a variety of commands. Each button on the puck can be programmed for each of five different areas on the tablet. The pointing device also lets users select or draw objects.
label: Description
content: Peter L. Jakab, a curator at the Smithsonians National Air and Space Museum, donated the device. He reported that it was purchased by his father, Leslie Jakab, but apparently never used.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Peter Jakab
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0265.02
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0265.02
label: accession number
content: 2005.0265
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Microcomputer Component
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in x 15 1/2 in x 16 in; 4.445 cm x 39.37 cm x 40.64 cm