Object Details
- Columbia Data Products, Inc.
- Description
- The MPC1600 (Multi-Personal Computer) is a microcomputer, made by Columbia Data Products, Inc., in 1983. The company stated that a Multi-Personal Computer was easily transportable and “capable of fulfilling all your personal needs from word processing to business applications”. The standard MPC was sold with two 5 1/4” floppy disk drives, a 16-bit processor, 128Kb RAM, 2 RS-232 serial ports, a Centronics parallel printer port, a Winchester Controller interface, a keyboard interface, and 8 IBM-PC compatible expansion slots. The MPC could be upgraded by replacing a 5 1/4” floppy drive with a 10Mb Winchester hard drive. The consumer had a choice of operating systems -- MS-DOS, CP/M-86, or MP/M-86.
- This microcomputer has an off-white case, two 5 1/4” floppy disk drives, two RS-232 serial ports, a Centronics parallel printer port, and a keyboard connector. The keyboard has the basic typewriter keys (alphabet, numbers, punctuation), and escape, control and alternate keys, a numeric keypad to the right, and a double row of 10 functions keys on the left. It supports either a monochrome or color monitor.
- For other parts to the machine, see the remainder of accession 2016.0271. For related software and documentation, see 2016.3148.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Simon Babil
- 1983
- ID Number
- 2016.0272.01
- accession number
- 2016.0272
- catalog number
- 2016.0272.01
- Object Name
- personal computer
- multi-personal compuer
- microcomputer
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall, microcomputer material)
- metal (overall, microcomputer material)
- Measurements
- overall: 13.7 cm x 76.9 cm x 38.1 cm; 5 13/32 in x 30 9/32 in x 15 in
- cpu: 13.7 cm x 57.5 cm x 38.1 cm; 5 13/32 in x 22 5/8 in x 15 in
- keyboard: 5.4 cm x 45 cm x 19.4 cm; 2 1/8 in x 17 23/32 in x 7 5/8 in
- power cord: 217.8 cm; 85 3/4 in
- place made
- United States: Maryland, Columbia
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Computers & Business Machines
- National Museum of American History
- web subject
- Computers
- Record ID
- nmah_1820625
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-6af8-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
