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 a black and white image of Charlie Chaplin standing next to a table with an IBM desktop computer on it. A red flower is part of the image.

Date Made: c 1981

Maker: IBM

Location: Currently not on view

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

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Credit Line: David DeJean

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: 2009.3071.003Catalog Number: 2009.3071.003Nonaccession Number: 2009.3071

Object Name: button, advertising

Physical Description: plastic (overall material)metal (overall material)Measurements: overall: 1/4 in x 2 1/2 in; .635 cm x 6.35 cm

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-d014-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_1362451

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