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- OBJECT TYPE
- INTERNAL/FLOPPY/8 IN.
- DATE
- 1980
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1999.0112.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Shugart Associates
- MODEL
- 851
- LOCATION
- United States of America
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General Information
- Serial #
- 309287
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 2
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- METAL CASING & PARTS, INCLUDING ALUMINUM/ SYNTHETIC PARTS/ PHENOLIC BOARD
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 37.5 cm
- Width
- 21.8 cm
- Height
- 11.5 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Computing Technology
- Category
- Digital computing devices
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Shugart
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- CIRCA 1980 +
- Canada
-
AMERICAN MADE PERIPHERAL DEVICE POSSIBLY USED WITH DONOR'S NABU COMPUTER. NABU NETWORK WAS UNSUCCESSFUL 1980S CANADIAN INITIATIVE; IT WAS ONE-WAY COMPUTER NETWORK INTENDED TO PROVIDE USERS WITH LOW COST ACCESS TO WIDE RANGE OF COMPUTER SOFTWARE. - Function
-
RANDOM-ACCESS-MEMORY DEVICE FOR DIGITAL COMPUTER, USED TO STORE DATA & PROGRAMMING. THIS EXAMPLE WAS REMOVED FROM MICRO OR PERSONAL COMPUTER. - Technical
-
STANDARD TYPE OF FLOPPY DISK DRIVE USED FOR HIGH END MICROCOMPUTERS FROM CA. 1975-1984 - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- LABEL ON UNDERSIDE READS "Shugart Associates/ Model No. 851/Volt 115 Freq. 60 Hz/ Serial No. 309287/ Made in U.S.A."
- Missing
- UNKNOWN
- Finish
- TEXTURED BLACK FINISH ON CASING FRONT, UNFINISHED CASING & INTERIOR PARTS/ MULTICOLOURED SYNTHETIC/ GREEN BOARD
- Decoration
- N/A
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