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Developer:
Metcalf, Robert  Search this
Maker:
Xerox Corporation  Search this
Physical Description:
plastic (overall material)
metal (overall material)
rubber (overall material)
Measurements:
overall: 6 in x 3 3/4 in x 1 1/4 in; 15.24 cm x 9.525 cm x 3.175 cm
Object Name:
circuit board
Place Made:
United States: California, Palo Alto
Date made:
1973
Description:
This Ethernet board is a prototype developed by Robert Metcalfe in 1973 while at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Metcalf based his idea for the Ethernet on the ALOHAnet, a packet-switching wireless radio network developed by Norman Abramson, Frank Kuo, and Richard Binder at the University of Hawaii-Manoa. The ALOHAnet sent computer data communication between the university's campuses on several islands. Metcalf improved upon ALOHAnet's design and created the "Alto ALOHA Network," a network of computers hard-wired together by cables that he soon called the Ethernet. In 1985, the Ethernet became the
<A href="http://www.ieee.org/"> Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)</A> standard for connecting personal computers via a Local Area Network (LAN). Today, LANs often use WiFi, or Wireless Fidelity, a way of connecting computers without wires.
Credit Line:
Xerox PARC
ID Number:
1992.0566.01
Catalog number:
1992.0566.01
Accession number:
1992.0566
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Medicine and Science: Computers
Computers & Business Machines
Exhibition:
Inventing In America
Exhibition Location:
National Museum of American History
Data Source:
National Museum of American History
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-1145-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:nmah_687626