Hewlett-Packard 2631A Printer for an HP 250 Computer System
date: label: date made
content: ca 1980
name: label: maker
content: Hewlett-Packard Company
notes: label: Description
content: In 1978, Hewlett-Packard Corporation introduced a relatively compact, "easy-to-use, high-performance business computer," sold as the HP 250. Its exterior was ergonomically designed to fit into an office setting. The top of the desk curved and has the built-in keyboard (1989.0023.01.1). An adjustable monitor (1989.0023.01.2) sat atop the desk, showing programs and data entered. The central processing unit (1989.0023.01.3) rolled under the desktop on the right side. A foam and metal endpiece (1989.0023.01.6) fit over the cpu at the side. The printer (1989.0023.01.5 - this part) sat left of the keyboard and has its own stand. It is a dot matrix character printer which could provide multiple-copy output at 180 characters per second. The disk drive (1989.0023.01.4) rolled beneath the printer.
label: Description
content: Hewlett Packard provided extensive documentation to assist those programming the machine (see 1989.3006).
label: Description
content: This example of the HP 250 was used at the American Consulting Engineers Council until at least 1985.
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content: References:
label: Description
content: Accession File.
label: Description
content: Hewlett-Packard Company, <I>HP 250 The easy-to-use, high-performance business computer General Information Manual</>, Palo Alto, California, 1980, esp. pp. 5-12. A copy of this document is available online from the HP Computer Museum.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Colorado, Fort Collins
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Jack R. Warner
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0023.01.5
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0023.01.5
label: accession number
content: 1989.0023
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Printer, High-Speed
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 93.9 cm x 64.7 cm x 45.7 cm; 36 15/16 in x 25 1/2 in x 18 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 51 in x 39 in x 41 in; 129.54 cm x 99.06 cm x 104.14 cm