Data Packs for a Wang Minicomputer
date: label: date made
content: c 1980s
name: label: maker
content: Wang Laboratories
notes: label: Description
content: These two plastic data packs, one in a blue plastic case, the other in a translucent brown plastic case, are both are from Wang Laboratories. As the name data pack suggests, the objects are layered groupings of hard disk platters that are coated with a magnetic medium for data storage. Both cases hold five large platters and both have handles.
label: Description
content: The dimensions given are for the individual cases, not for the platters.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Jon Eklund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0132.35
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0132.35
label: accession number
content: 2006.0132
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Memory Storage Disks
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 15 in; 10.16 cm x 38.1 cm