72 results for: Microsoft
First Windows Mobile Phone, "Sagem WA 3050 Pocket PC Phone," 2001
This early mobile phone and Pocket PC (Personal Computer), released in 2001, is part of a collection donated by a Microsoft employee who worked at the software company from 1999 to 2004. Microsoft would develop the software and prototype devices and then work with a manufacturing company, like Sagem, to build the phones. The Sagem WA 3050 was one of…
ID Number:2018.99.5
Date:2001
Prototype Windows Mobile Pocket PC Phone, ca. 2003
This prototype, developed in 2003, is part of a collection donated by a Microsoft employee who worked at the software company from 1999 to 2004. Microsoft would develop the software and prototype devices and then work with a manufacturing company to build the phones. This prototype features a hard plastic detachable keyboard sleeve that attaches to the bottom of the…
ID Number:2018.99.6
Date:2003
Prototype Windows Mobile Pocket PC Phone, ca. 2003
This prototype, developed in 2003, is part of a collection donated by a Microsoft employee who worked at the software company from 1999 to 2004. Microsoft would develop the software and prototype devices and then work with a manufacturing company to build the phones.
ID Number:2018.99.7
Date:2003
Windows Mobile Smartphone, ca. 2003
This early Smartphone, developed in 2003, is part of a collection donated by a Microsoft employee who worked at the software company from 1999 to 2004. Microsoft would develop the software and prototype devices and then work with a manufacturing company to build the phones. This was Microsoft's first Smartphone and was only used by employees.
ID Number:2018.99.8
Date:2003
Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) device, "Compaq iPAQ 3135 Pocket PC," 1999
This early PDA device or Pocket PC (Personal Computer), released in 1999, is part of a collection donated by a Microsoft employee who worked at the software company from 1999 to 2004. Microsoft would develop the software and prototype devices and then work with a manufacturing company, like Compaq, to build the PDA. The iPAQ uses a Windows Mobile interface…
ID Number:2018.99.RefiPAQ
Date:1999
Microsoft Zune HD and AV digital audio player, 2009
The Zune portable digital media player was created in 2006 and marketed by Microsoft as a competitive device to the highly popular Apple iPod. Along with the portable player, the Zune brand included a music subscription service, a marketplace for music, TV and movies, streaming services for the Xbox 360 game console, and desktop media software. The Zune made a…
ID Number:2018.Zune
Date:2009
Prototype thermal immersion circulator for heating water and cooking at an accurate and stable temperature, ca. 2010
A thermal immersion circulator is an electrically powered device that circulates and heats a warm fluid kept at an accurate and stable temperature. It is used in various processes, but starting in the late twentieth century, these devices have also been used for sous-vide food cooking, a method that uses airtight plastic bags in a water bath at regulated temperatures…
ID Number:2019.62.1
Date:Circa 2010
Sansaire Sous Vide cooking machine, 2016
The Sansaire Sous Vide is an immersion circulator comprised of heating coils, thermometer, microcontroller and water-circulating motor that work to maintain a precise and accurate temperature to properly cook food in a water bath. Scott Heimendinger, who previously worked at IBM and Microsoft and was a Director of Applied Research at Modernist Cuisine, developed and created this commercially successful machine…
ID Number:2019.62.2
Date:2016
Clear Plexiglas sign for MSNBC, 1996
Between 1996 and 2013, Building 25 on Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, Washington, was the world headquarters for MSNBC.com, the online news site that was a joint venture involving Microsoft and NBC News. More than 100 journalists, developers and business employees kept track of goings-on around the world, updating the MSNBC.com website 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Editors…
ID Number:2019.87.1
Date:1996
Microsoft Typing Tutor II for the Apple II 5.25" disk and manual, 1982
This diskette and manual are part of a collection donated by Frank Catalano who was one of the first local broadcast journalists to cover the personal computer revolution in the 1980s. At that time, he created and hosted the weekly Northwest Computing show for KING-AM and, in the 1990s, tracked the tech industry with a long-running "Byte Me" column that…
ID Number:2020.4.1
Date:1982