Tychon 8080 Octal Code Card
date: label: date made
content: 1976
notes: label: Description
content: Jonathan Titus, who worked at the Blacksburg, Virginia firm of Tychon, inc. (later The Blacksburg Group) and donated an extensive collection of material relating to microcomputers to the National Museum of American History, designed this cardboard sliding rule to assist those programming the 8080 microprocessor and distributed it through his company. The back side has a chart for converting common characters into octal digits following the conventions of ASCII code.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Virginia, Blacksburg
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Jonathan A. Titus
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.3201.30
label: nonaccession number
content: 1991.3201
label: catalog number
content: 1991.3201.30
objectType: label: Object Name
content: chart
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 cm x 16 cm x 3.4 cm; 3 5/32 in x 6 5/16 in x 1 11/32 in