Object Details
maker
Xerox Corporation
Description
This is a green printed circuit board with copper wires. It is one of two Ethernet prototype boards designed by Bob Metcalfe and David Boggs for Xerox PARC. The designers sought to interconnect Xerox Alto personal workstations, and to join these to servers and laser printers.
The green plastic circuit board has an array of chips on one side. Connections coming out of the chips are wired together on the opposite side with blue wires. The board is marked: AUGAT.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Xerox PARC
Date made
1973
ID Number
1992.0566.02
catalog number
1992.0566.02
accession number
1992.0566
Object Name
Computer Component
microcomputer component
Measurements
overall: 2 cm x 25.5 cm x 19 cm; 25/32 in x 10 1/32 in x 7 15/32 in
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Medicine and Science: Computers
Computers & Business Machines
Data Source
National Museum of American History
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_687627