General Information

Serial #

7080

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

SYNTHETIC CASING & PARTS/ METAL BACK & PARTS

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

33.3 cm

Width

27.0 cm

Height

8.5 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Communications

Category

Telephony

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

General Datacomm

Country

United States of America

State/Province

Connecticut

City

Danbury

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Ontario

Period

LATE 1970'S-1980'S

Canada

AMERICAN-MADE EQUIPMENT, PART OF MICRO COMPUTER SYSTEM MARKETEDBY CANADIAN FIRM, WYNCHESTER, WHICH ALSO MADE ONE OF COMPONENTS (CPU/DISK DRIVE). SYSTEM WAS USED BY SMALL CANADIAN COMPUTER SERVICE FIRM, R&L MICROSERVICES FOR PROGRAMMING & TRAINING. R&L PROVIDED TRAINING IN SOFTWARE PACKAGES TO FEDERAL EMPLOYEES.

Function

A DEVICE THAT ENABLES DATA TO BE TRANSMITTED BETWEEN COMPUTING DEVICES VIA EXISTING TELEPHONE LINES. THIS EXAMPLE ENABLED A SMALL COMPUTING SERVICE COMPANY TO CONNUNICATE WITH ITS CLIENTS VIA TELEPHONE LINES.

Technical

EXAMPLE OF LOW-SPEED ASYNCHRONOMOUS MODEM THAT TRANSMITTED DATA AT RATES UP TO 300 BITS PER SECOND BETWEEN COMPUTING DEVICES, PROVIDING FOR FULL DUPLEX, BINARY DATA TRANSMISSION OVER TWO-WIRE SWITCHED TELEPHONE NETWORKS.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

WHITE LETTERING ON BACK READS 'General DataComm Industries, Inc. Danbury, Conn.', 'MULTI/Modem/ GDC 113A/ Serial No. 7080'/ BLACK LETTERING ON FRONT PANEL, BLACK ON BACK

Missing

N/A

Finish

LIGHT GREY CASING FRONT SECTION, TEXTURED DARK GREY CASING SIDES & TOP/ BLACK PAINTED CASING BACK/ BRUSHED METAL FRONT CONTROL PANEL WITH PLATED & RED SYNTHETIC SWITCHES/ BLACK CONTROL KNOB & PLATED PARTS ON BACK PANEL/ GREY POWER & TELEPHONE JACK CORDS

Decoration

N/A