84 results for: Computers and Technology
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
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
IBM 5150 Personal Computer with monitor and keyboard, ca. 1981
The IBM Personal Computer model number 5150, the original version of the IBM PC compatible hardware platform, was introduced in 1981. One of the earliest desktop computers on the market, IBM helped standardize the PC for worldwide consumption. The donor of this IBM PC, who grew up in Shoreline, remembers drafting book reports and playing an early digital baseball game…
ID Number:2019.104.1
Date:Circa 1981
Apple IIe Personal Computer with monitor and keyboard, ca. 1983
The donor of this Apple IIe PC grew up in Shoreline and remembers playing an early digital murder mystery game on a floppy disk on this computer in the 1980s.
ID Number:2019.104.Ref
Date:Circa 1983
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
Diskettes (3.5") and manual for Workspace by Ark Interface, Seattle, 1991
This diskette package is 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 first…
ID Number:2020.4.2
Date:1991
Product package for Microsoft "Bob" software, 1994
This software package is 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 first…
ID Number:2020.4.3
Date:1994
Microsoft "Bob" software for Windows CD-ROM, 1994
This software package is 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 first…
ID Number:2020.4.4
Date:1994