AT&T 6300 Microcomputer and VirtualVideo Producer Software
date: label: Date made
content: 1984-1986
name: label: maker
content: American Telephone & Telegraph Company
notes: label: Description
content: Debuting in June 1984, model 6300 was AT&T's first entry into IBM compatible computers. It was the low end of the AT&T computer line. The machine was built by Olivetti in Italy. In comparison to the IBM PC XT, which used an 8 bit, Intel 8088 chip running at 4.7 MHz, the 6300 used a 16 bit, Intel 8086 chip that ran at 8 MHz. This example has serial number 0078251.
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content: Although the 6300 was a good machine in its class, AT&T did not follow it up, and within several years, the company abandoned the PC clone computer market.
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content: This particular computer was used by computer multi-media pioneers Robert Morris and Trip Denton to create a digital multimedia authoring software, VirtualVideo Producer. Introduced in 1986—a year before hypercard—this software allowed users to produce multi-media shows with their PC and an image capture board. It is one of the first, if not the first, multi-media authoring system on the market. The presentations could incorporate images, video, text, and animations.
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content: Morris and Denton created a company, V_Graph to develop and market their product. The Smithsonian has a range of materials that document the early history of the firm. By the early 1990s, VirtualVideo Producer had matured and was bundled as Tempra with products from Creative Laboratories, Mathematica, and others. Over 300,000 copies were eventually distributed.
label: Description
content: See related documentation and software 2004.3035.01-.06.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Work
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content: Computers & Business Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Robert Morris and Leet Denton
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2004.0117.01
label: catalog number
content: 2004.0117.01
label: accession number
content: 2004.0117
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microcomputer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
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content: metal (overall material)
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content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/2 in x 15 in x 17 1/2 in; 16.51 cm x 38.1 cm x 44.45 cm