Commodore LCD Laptop Microcomputer
date: label: date made
content: 1985
name: label: maker
content: Commodore Business Machines, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: By the mid-1980s, microcomputer manufacturers envisioned small, portable versions of their machines. This prototype for a “lap computer” was developed by Commodore, a leading manufacturer of early microcomputers. The compact instrument was to have a built-in version of the programming language BASIC, 32K of random access memory, and an 80-column by 16-line liquid crystal display (this example has no display). A mark on it reads: PROTOTYPE (/) 6/85 (/) Rev. 7 (/) #5/6 KUNZ. A black cloth carrying case comes with the machine, as does an adaptor (the adaptor is 1992.0439.01.2)
label: Description
content: This prototype was owned by Dr. Daniel W. Kunz, Executive Director for Government Marketing at Commodore. The Commodore LCD was never released, although laptop computers became common.
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content: References:
label: Description
content: Scott Mace, “Commodore Shows New 128,” <I>Infoworld</I>, January 28, 1985, p. 19.
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content: Accession file.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Daniel Kunz
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.0439.01.1
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0439.01.1
label: accession number
content: 1992.0439
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Microcomputer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
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content: metal (wireing material)
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content: paper (business card material)
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content: cloth (carrying case material)
label: Measurements
content: closed: .54 cm x 29.2 cm x 28 cm; 7/32 in x 11 1/2 in x 11 1/32 in