WorkSlate Portable Microprinter
WorkSlate Portable Microprinter
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- Description
- This device has five print functions: normal (prints 40 characters across); compressed (prints 80 characters across); sideways-normal (prints twenty-four rows vertically for worksheets wider than 80 characters); sideways-compressed (prints 48 rows vertically); and typewriter, to print as you type. It automatically shuts off after 2 minutes of inactivity. Installed in the printer when received were a new roll of 4 ½” paper, a four-color pen set (black, green, blue, red pens), and a coiled RJ45 cable to connect to the WorkSlate (stored in a slot on the back of the printer).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- microcomputer peripheral, printer
- date made
- 1983
- user
- Boman, Michael
- maker
- Convergent Technologies, Inc.
- place made
- United States: California, Santa Clara
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall, microprinter material)
- metal (overall, circuitry, support material)
- paper (overall, paper roll material)
- Measurements
- overall: 4.5 cm x 17.5 cm x 22.2 cm; 1 25/32 in x 6 7/8 in x 8 3/4 in
- paper roll: 2.7 cm x 11.5 cm; 1 1/16 in x 4 17/32 in
- ID Number
- 2016.0253.02
- catalog number
- 2016.0253.02
- accession number
- 2016.0253
- Credit Line
- Gift of Michael Boman
- subject
- Computers
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- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Computers & Business Machines
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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