Microcomputer Processor Board, Electronic Voting Equipment Corporation
date: label: date made
content: ca 1975
name: label: maker
content: Electronic Voting Equipment Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This green plastic printed circuit board has an array of electronic components, including an Intel C8080-1 microprocessor with number N6834. Machines for accumulating ballots had been patented in the United States since at least the late nineteenth century, and by the 1920s the use of lever machines for voting was possible in some locations. Such systems would spread widely, followed by devices aided by electronic computers. With the advent of microprocessors in the 1970s, firms like Electronic Voting Equipment Corporation, the maker of this circuit board, entered the scene.
label: Description
content: The board is marked: ELECTRONIC (/) VOTING EQuipment Corp. It also is marked: PROCESSOR (/) 13100721. It also is marked: EL-104.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Roy G. Saltman, <I>The History and Politics of Voting Technology</I>, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Jon Titus
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0891.31
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0891.31
label: accession number
content: 1991.0891
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Microcomputer Board
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 8 1/4 in x 6 5/8 in; 1.27 cm x 20.955 cm x 16.8275 cm