Commodore VICMODEM Model 1600 for Use with a Microcomputer
name: label: maker
content: Commodore Business Machines, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: This modem, made by Commodore and sold as the model 1600, consists of a telephone interface cartridge, a Victerm I program cassette, an instruction booklet and an original box. The cartridge has a brown plastic housing. The donor has also included correspondence and other information relating to CompuServe.
label: Description
content: The VICmodem was a 300 baud modem that did not require the use of an acoustic coupler and telephone handset. Like the Commodore modem/300 Model 1660, it was a pulsed modem, requiring the computer to create the touch tones which were fed into the telephone lines by way of a cord that bypassed the handset. Because of this feature, the VICmodem was also often used by hackers and phreakers.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Jeffrey T. Vogel
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0249.09
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0249.09
label: accession number
content: 1987.0249
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Modem
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: cartridge: 1 1/4 in x 6 in x 3 1/2 in; 3.175 cm x 15.24 cm x 8.89 cm
label: Measurements
content: box: 2 in x 8 1/4 in x 11 1/4 in; 5.08 cm x 20.955 cm x 28.575 cm