Microcomputer, IBM 5155 Portable Personal Computer
date: label: Date made
content: 1984
name: label: maker
content: IBM
notes: label: Description
content: This white plastic computer was designed to be transportable, partly in answer to Compaq Computer's portable model. The keyboard, monitor and disk drive are all contained in a large suitcase-like form, complete with a retractable handle. The keyboard flips up to prtoect the monitor and drives and the back area near the handle has a pull down protective cover.
label: Description
content: The machine and its remaining components and software (e.g. the parts of accession 2007.00010) were purchased by and donated to the Smithsonian by its user. New York City lawyer Michael L. Sher.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: NMAH accession file 2007.0010.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Michael Sher
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2007.0010.01
label: catalog number
content: 2007.0010.01
label: accession number
content: 2007.0010
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Microcomputer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 in x 19 3/4 in x 17 in; 20.32 cm x 50.165 cm x 43.18 cm