Microcomputer Component, AppleTalk Connector Kit in Box
date: label: Date made
content: around 1988
name: label: maker
content: Apple Computer, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: AppleTalk, a protocol suite developed by Apple Computer in the early 1980s, was developed in conjunction with the Macintosh computer. AppleTalk's purpose was to allow multiple users to share resources, such as files and printers. The devices that supplied these resources were called servers, while the devices that make use of these resources (such as a user's Macintosh computer) were referred to as clients. Hence, AppleTalk was one of the early implementations of a distributed client/server networking system.
label: Description
content: AppleTalk was designed with a transparent network interface--that is, the interaction between client computers and network servers required little interaction from the user. In addition, the actual operations of the AppleTalk protocols was invisible to end users, who saw only the result of these operations.
label: Description
content: This connector is a standard component for setting up an AppleTalk network in an office environment.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Sam Pickens
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0002.01
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0002.01
label: accession number
content: 2006.0002
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Microcomputer Component