Acorn NetStation
date: label: Date made
content: c. 1996
name: label: maker
content: Acorn Computers Ltd.
notes: label: Description
content: The British firm of Acorn, working from a design by Oracle, produced this black metal device to provide connections between users and the Internet. The machine was designed soley to designed to run a web browser and to run applications in the browser window; it had no local storage, apart from a smartcard which can beinserted into the front and used to store user specific data.
label: Description
content: This example has a paperon the bottom that reads: No. 4. Another paper tag beneath this reads: SN 2084. A third tag reads: PAL Machine. There is no Acorn marking on the device.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Jon Eklund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0132.01
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0132.01
label: accession number
content: 2006.0132
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Network Computer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 11 1/4 in x 11 1/4 in; 5.08 cm x 28.575 cm x 28.575 cm