IBM Dot Matrix Printer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1985
name: label: maker
content: IBM
notes: label: Description
content: This “IBM Personal Computer Printer,” a model 5152, has a tan plastic case. This was a rebranded version if the Epson MX-80 printer, and made in Japan. The dot matrix printer took rolls of tractor feed paper, 9 1/2" wide, that had holes along each edge to hold the paper to the printer mechanism. The paper was perforated to tear into separate sheets easily and to tearing off the holes along the edges.
label: Description
content: The device was designed for with an IBM pc. This example has a tag that reads: PROPERTY (/) OF (/) IBM.
label: Description
content: For other objects that were part of an early IBM pc system, see acquisition 2007.0096.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Japan: Japan
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Jon Eklund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0132.12
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0132.12
label: accession number
content: 2006.0132
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Printer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 15 1/2 in x 14 in; 11.43 cm x 39.37 cm x 35.56 cm