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Book, Instruction

Object Name:
Book, Instruction
Object ID:
2003.003.07 a-b
Date:
1983
Description:
Operating manual, Microsoft Basic. Three-ring binder with cardboard cover, exterior covered with olive-colored, textured and coated paper, interior with black paper. White silk-screened lettering on front cover: "IBM" in upper left corner, "PERSONAL COMPUTER / HARDWARE REFERENCE / LIBRARY" in upper right corner, horizontal line across center with "BASIC / BY MICROSOFT CORP." underneath and on spine: "IBM", "DOS" and "6025010". Three metal D-rings on a metal strip riveted to the back cover. Loose-leaf, three-hole punched papers in binder. 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 inside edge: "M A" and number "6081488". 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.

a--binder
b--slipcase cover
Material:
Paper
Metal
Cardboard
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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