Advertising Button, IBM, Personal Computer

Description:

This circular button has black text on a white background. It reads: The IBM Personal Computer. It also has an image of a brown cane, black bowler hat, and black moustache; all associated with the film star Charlie Chaplin.

Date Made: c 1984c 1981

Maker: IBM

Location: Currently not on view

See more items in: Medicine and Science: Computers, Popular Entertainment, Advertising, Computers & Business Machines

Exhibition:

Exhibition Location:

Credit Line: David DeJean

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: 2009.3071.002Catalog Number: 2009.3071.002Nonaccession Number: 2009.3071

Object Name: button, advertising

Physical Description: plastic (overall material)metal (overall material)Measurements: overall: 5/16 in x 2 1/2 in; .79375 cm x 6.35 cm

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-3b50-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_1362450

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