Microcomputer Peripheral, VICMODEM Model #1600
date: label: date made
content: ca 1982
notes: label: Description
content: The VICMODEM was used to communicate and exchange information over phone lines. The modem plugged into the user port on the back of the Commodore computer and the RJ11C phone connector plugged into the modem’s phone socket. Commodore provided a free subscription to CompuServe, the first major commercial online service provider in the US, and one free hour of access time on the CompuServe Information Service. The modem cost $99 and over a million were sold.
label: Description
content: This VICMODEM model 1600 has serial # 135398, a cassette tape with software, and a user's manual. It was purchased in by the donor for their Commodore 64.
label: Description
content: See related object 1989.0544.01.1
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: https://www.oldcomputr.com/commodore-vicmodem-1982/
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: D. D. Hilke
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0544.01.4
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0544.01.4
label: accession number
content: 1989.0544
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Modem
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (box, manual material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (circuitry material)
label: Measurements
content: box: 5 cm x 20 cm x 28 cm; 1 31/32 in x 7 7/8 in x 11 1/32 in