Data General CS-5 Microcomputer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1982
name: label: maker
content: Data General Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: The Massachetts maker of minicomputers Data General decided by 1982 that it should offer a range of "commercial systems," including single terminal desktops like this one, larger machines that could handle two to nine terminals, and yet higher speed machines that could handle 25 terminals. The microcomputer has a cream and turquoise body with a monitor and two disk drives. This example has serial number D044063.
label: Description
content: Additional parts of the donation are a a hard disk, a printer, and a realtime programming system (see the rest of acquisition 1992.0536).
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: [Advertisement], <I>Byte</I>, vol. 7 #10, October 1982, p. 203.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Westborough
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Robert G. Rolfe
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.0536.01
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0536.01
label: accession number
content: 1992.0536
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Microcomputer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/2 in x 21 in x 20 in; 29.21 cm x 53.34 cm x 50.8 cm