IBM PC Keyboard
date: label: Date made
content: 1981
name: label: maker
content: IBM
notes: label: Description
content: The IBM PC was a milestone in personal computing introduced on August 12, 1981. The keyboard, considered extremely reliable and high quality, was originally developed in North Carolina for another $10,000 IBM computer system that had been canceled. Each key was rated to be reliable to over 100 million keystrokes. Compared to the keyboards of other small computers at the time, the IBM PC keyboard far surpassed them and played a significant role in establishing the computer's excellent impression. (The importance of the keyboard was should not be dismissed since the mediocre keyboard was one of the reasons given for the failure of the IBM PC Junior.) The computer was discontinued on April 2, 1987.
label: Description
content: This is a second example of this model of microcomputer - for the first see the parts of 2007.0096.01.
label: Description
content: IBM PC users had the option of choosing the 11 1/2 in. Monochrome Display or the 12 1/2 inch Color Display which was used with the IBM Color/Graphics Moditor Adapter. The Color Display lets you use 16 colors for text and up to four colors for graphics. The number of available colors incerases to 16 for graphics when the display is attached to an IBM Enhanced Graphics Adapter (EGA).
label: Description
content: For a general discussion of the history of the machine, see 2007.0096.01.3.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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: 2007.0096.02.3
label: catalog number
content: 2007.0096.02.3
label: accession number
content: 2007.0096
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Microcomputer Peripheral
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 19 1/2 in x 9 in; 6.35 cm x 49.53 cm x 22.86 cm