Object Details
- developer
- Metcalf, Robert
- Xerox Corporation
- Description
- This Ethernet board is a prototype developed by Robert Metcalfe in 1973 while at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Metcalf based his idea for the Ethernet on the ALOHAnet, a packet-switching wireless radio network developed by Norman Abramson, Frank Kuo, and Richard Binder at the University of Hawaii-Manoa. The ALOHAnet sent computer data communication between the university's campuses on several islands. Metcalf improved upon ALOHAnet's design and created the "Alto ALOHA Network," a network of computers hard-wired together by cables that he soon called the Ethernet. In 1985, the Ethernet became the
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) standard for connecting personal computers via a Local Area Network (LAN). Today, LANs often use WiFi, or Wireless Fidelity, a way of connecting computers without wires.
- Credit Line
- Xerox PARC
- 1973
- ID Number
- 1992.0566.01
- catalog number
- 1992.0566.01
- accession number
- 1992.0566
- Object Name
- circuit board
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- rubber (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 6 in x 3 3/4 in x 1 1/4 in; 15.24 cm x 9.525 cm x 3.175 cm
- Place Made
- United States: California, Palo Alto
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Computers & Business Machines
- Exhibition
- Inventing In America
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_687626
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-1145-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
