General Electric Datanet 730 Computer Terminal
date: label: date made
content: c. 1964
name: label: maker
content: General Electric Company
notes: label: Description
content: Before computers were relatively inexpensive, businesses sometime arranged to use them remotely over telephone lines. This terminal was used with a modem (see 2007.0180.02) in Minneapolis, Minnesota for remote communications with a mainframe digital computer and was owned and used by Hal Becker, a General Electric programmer and engineer.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Hal Becker
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2007.0180.01
label: catalog number
content: 2007.0180.01
label: accession number
content: 2007.0180
objectType: label: Object Name
content: terminal
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 1/2 in x 30 in x 22 1/2 in; 39.37 cm x 76.2 cm x 57.15 cm