Dual Disk Drive for an SWTPC 6800 Microcomputer
date: label: Date made
content: 1981
name: label: maker
content: Southwest Technical Products Corp.
notes: label: Description
content: In 1977. Robert Wood purchased an STWPC 6800 microcomputer, which was updated from 1978 onward by his brother Lamont Wood (the donor). This dual disk drive was purchased during Lamont Wood's 1981 upgrade along with more memory, a 6809 CPU card drive and a new terminal. A maker's mark on the machne reads: SWTP MINIFLOPPY (/) DISK SYSTEM. The orientation of this label suggests that disks went in vertically. For the computer, see 2007.0009.02. For related documentation, see transaction 2007.3008.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Lamont Wood
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2007.0009.09
label: catalog number
content: 2007.0009.09
label: accession number
content: 2007.0009
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Computer Peripheral
label: Object Name
content: microcomputer peripheral
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/2 in x 14 1/2 in x 10 1/2 in; 16.51 cm x 36.83 cm x 26.67 cm