Dr. DOS 5.0 User Guide, ViewMAX User's Guide - Four Floppy Disks and two Manuals for Software Used with a Compaq Portable Computer
date: label: Date made
content: 1990
name: label: maker
content: Digital Research
notes: label: Description
content: In 1987, Digital Research, Inc., released DR DOS, a computer operating system that challenged MS-DOS (Digital Research had been selling operating systems for many years). This is Release 5.0 of DR DOS, on four floppy disks. They are labeled Startup Disk, Install/Utilities, Utilities #2, and Viewmax. The museum numbers also covers two manuals, one entitled DR DOS 5.0 User Guide (with tabs added by the user for easy referral) and the other, shorter one called DR DOS 5.0 ViewMAX User Guide. ViewMAX was an icon-based graphical user interface.
label: Description
content: These materials were received with a Compaq personal computer with museum number 1998.0175.01.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Robert N. Walsh
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1998.3052.11
label: catalog number
content: 1998.3052.11
label: nonaccession number
content: 1998.3052
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Software
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 22.8 cm x 17.6 cm x .5 cm; 8 31/32 in x 6 15/16 in x 3/16 in