Artifact Details

Title

Kookaburra portable computer

Catalog Number

102798159

Type

Still image

Description

Select photos were displayed in the Personal Computers section of CHM's Revolution exhibit with the following caption, "The Australian Kookaburra Laptop (the “Dulmont Magnum”) had MS-DOS, a word processor, spreadsheet, and appointment programs permanently in ROM. It weighed “only” 10.5 pounds. Design, begun in 1979, included novel power-management circuitry developed at the University of New South Wales."

Date

2010

Photographer

Richards, Mark

Extent

6

Collection Title

Mark Richards Collection

Credit

Gift of Mark Richards

Lot Number

X5763.2010

Related Records

X1519.98 Kookaburra Portable Computer