MIKE 2 Modular Microcomputer
date: label: date made
content: 1975
name: label: maker
content: Martin Research
notes: label: Description
content: According to the donor, this is "an 8008-based stack of computer boards with a small keypad for programming and data entry." He recalled that "MR also supplied an educational manual for the computer." There are four circuit boards joined together by steel posts and a ribbon cable. The top board has a numerical input device and six-digit display.
label: Description
content: Martin Reearch, a microcomputer design firm in Chicago, Illinois, advertised its MIKE 2 and MIKE 3 modular micros in the first volume of <I>Byte</I> magazine. The MIKE 2 used 8008 microprocessors, the MIKE 3 8080 microprocessors. For both, data entry was via a keyboard on top of the machine, which also had a six-digit display.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: </>Byte</I>, vol. 1, #1, September, 1975, p. 1.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Jon Titus
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0891.29
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0891.29
label: accession number
content: 1991.0891
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Microcomputer
label: Object Name
content: microcomputer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/4 in x 7 in x 7 1/2 in; 9.525 cm x 17.78 cm x 19.05 cm