Object Details
- U.S. Robotics
- Description
- This 110 Baud modem with acoustic coupler was was one of the early modems with acoustic couplers used by computers for communicating over telephone lines. The telephone was first dialed and then placed in the cradle where it would talk to the other computer. These modems were superseded by internal and external modems that did not need to use a physical telephone headset.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Sid Paskowitz
- Before 1978.
- ID Number
- 1997.0265.02
- catalog number
- 1997.0265.02
- accession number
- 1997.0265
- Object Name
- Microcomputer Peripheral
- Object Type
- microcomputers
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall marterial)
- rubber (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 7.5 cm x 24.4 cm x 9.2 cm; 2 15/16 in x 9 19/32 in x 3 5/8 in
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Computers & Business Machines
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_211444
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a0-e017-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
