Book, Instruction
- Object Name:
- Book, Instruction
- Object ID:
- 2003.003.06 a-b
- Date:
- 1983
- Description:
- Operating manual, Microsoft DOS. Three-ring binder with cardboard cover, exterior covered with salmon-colored, textured and coated paper, interior with black paper. White silk-screened lettering on front cover: "IBM" in upper left corner, "PERSONAL COMPUTER / COMPUTER LANGUAGE / SERIES" in upper right corner, horizontal line across center with "DISK / OPERATING / SYSTEM / BY MICROSOFT CORP." underneath and on spine: "IBM", "DOS" and "6024120", round paper sticker near top with barely visible "2.10". Three metal D-rings on a metal strip riveted to the back cover. Loose-leaf, three-hole punched papers in binder. A user's guide with salmon-colored paper cover bound with two metal staples and a license agreement on white cardstock are inside cover, but are not hole-punched and are not on the rings. A clear plastic sleeve with three pockets holding two 5.25 inch floppy disks, "DOS" and "SUPPLEMENTAL PROGRAMS", is hole-punched as is the last item in the binder. Raised text along the left edge of the plastic sleeve between the top two holes: "ITEM NO. 6172206". Binder slides into a cardboard slipcase cover which is covered on the exterior with khaki textured and coated paper, paper extends to inside edge. White lettering on right side: "PERSONAL COMPUTER HARDWARE REFERENCE LIBRARY", horizontal white line across center with "IBM" below. Front edges have semi-circular cutouts in middle of edge.
- Material:
- Paper
Metal
Plastic - Dimensions:
- H-9.5 W-2.375 D-8 inches
- Provenance:
- Goes with computer used by the donors at their home in Manchester, NH, from 1984 until it stopped working in 1999 or 2000.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of William E. and June M. Vander Haegen
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