Advertising Button, IBM, Personal Computer

Description:

This circular button marks the fifth anniversary of release of the IBM PC. On the white background there is a large red number 5 with small red squares on background. Charlie Chaplin, in black and with a cane carries the 5.

Date Made: c 1986

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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Exhibition Location:

Credit Line: David DeJean

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: 2009.3071.019Catalog Number: 2009.3071.019Nonaccession Number: 2009.3071

Object Name: button, advertising

Physical Description: plastic (overall material)metal (overall material)Measurements: overall: 1/4 in x 2 1/8 in; .635 cm x 5.3975 cm

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-d141-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_1362478

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