Dell History at the Smithsonian

Last week, Michael was on hand at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History to donate items from Dell’s past. One of those items was a PC’s Limited computer from 1985 complete with invoice #100. That machine joined other pieces of PC history from the museum’s vast collection that include ENIAC, an Altair, a TRS 80 Model 1, a first-generation IBM PC, an Apple Lisa computer and an original Apple Macintosh.


Beyond the machine from 1985, the donation included Michael’s employee badge, an OptiPlex GX520 that was one of the early machines to roll off the line from our Winston-Salem North Carolina plant in 2005 along with company documentation. Select items will be on temporary display in the museum’s “Treasures of American History” exhibit.


This video contains two parts: first, David Allison, chair of the museum’s Information Technology division talks about why the Smithsonian was interested in adding Dell artifacts to its collection. The second part is an interview with Cliff and Barbara Johnson, who bought the PC’s Limited machine in 1985 that was donated to the museum.



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