General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

13

Total Parts

52

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

SYNTHETIC DISK WITH PAPER LABEL/ PAPER PROTECTOR

Dimensions

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

Length

14.3 cm

Width

13.4 cm

Height

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Thickness

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Weight

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Diameter

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Volume

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Lexicon

Group

Computing Technology

Category

Digital peripheral devices

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Unknown

Country

Unknown

State/Province

Unknown

City

Unknown

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Ontario

Period

1980'S

Canada

APPLE II, INTRODUCED IN 1977, WAS FIRST PC TO BE MASS MARKET SUCCESS IN CANADA AS ELSEWHERE. The Dam Busters was developed by Artech Digital Entertainment of Ottawa, Ontario for Sydney Development Corp. of Vancouver, British Columbia. Sydney Development Corp. was the only large Canadian based video game publisher/developer in the early 1980s. The business model worked so that some titles were developed in Vancouver while other titles were farmed to other Canadian software developers (mostly in Ottawa and Toronto) only to have them branded as Sydney games. The Dam Busters is loosely based on the real life Second World War Operation Chastise and was heavily researched at the National Aviation Museum.

Function

COMPUTER PROGRAM DEVELOPED FOR RECREATIONAL PURPOSES IN WHICH GAME IS PLAYED USING COMPUTER SCREEN & INPUT DEVICE SUCH AS JOYSTICK OR MOUSE. MOST OF THESE GAMES INVOLVE ROLE-PLAYING IN SIMULATED ENVIRONMENT.

Technical

COMPUTER GAMES WERE ONE OF MOST POPULAR APPLICATIONS OF PERSONAL COMPUTER

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

TYPEWRITTEN TEXT ON LABEL READS '7/14 Format: Special/ A: Dam Busters/ B: Karate Champ'

Missing

N/A

Finish

BLACK DISK/ WHITE LABEL

Decoration

N/A