Box of Documentation for Vydec 1400 word processor
date: label: Date made
content: 1970s
name: label: maker
content: Vydec Company
notes: label: Description
content: These materials include:
label: Description
content: 1) Five eight-inch diskettes. Three are entitled "Text Printer Rev. 04" and two entitled "Text Printer Rev. 03." Four are in hard, protective holders
label: Description
content: Binder with software and instructions for Text Editor. Included are a manual, four audio cassettes, and one 8-inch "Pre-Stored Training Disc"
label: Description
content: 2) An unopened Qume printer cartridge, entitled "Qume Multistrike black, Reorder Number 80029-02."
label: Description
content: 3) Two three-ring binders with Vydec history, product information, and photographs. These would appear to come from the company. they describe the decision of three Hewlett-Packard engineers to leave that company to produce a new word processing machine. In 1972, Exxon Enterprises and HP begcame joint owners of the new company. Exxon provided venture capital, while HP contributed the full page display technology the founders had developed at the New Jersey division of Hewlett Packard. By 1980, the firm was entirely owned by Exxon as part of the Exxon Information Systems Group.
label: Description
content: 4) An anti-glare screen cover.
label: Description
content: 5) A binder of materials on the Vydec Text Editor, including a manual, four audiocasettes, and one eight-inch "Pre-Stored Training Disc."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2000.3061.01
label: catalog number
content: 2000.3061.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 2000.3061
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Documentation
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 27 cm x 41 cm x 33 cm; 10 5/8 in x 16 1/8 in x 13 in