What answers did you come up for the following questions? there are are various possible answers. The key to this thought process is to expand your expectations of how primary documents can be used in your research.
What kind of research topic would this document be an obvious primary source for?
If we expand our idea of how to use this document as a primary source, what other kinds of research would this be helpful for?
Examples include:
What kinds of other primary and secondary sources can we use to help us understand this document and our research?
Examples include:
In order to fully contextualize the document you just read, it would be a good idea to answer the following questions:
Now that you have read the document, compare your answers to the annotated version that is attached on this page.
Do you have different answers? If so, did you identify something differently than in the annotated version? there are sometimes various ways that the 5W's (and an H!) can be answered, however, for the purposes of this exercise, the annotated version provides the best answers to the questions.
An interesting piece of information to know is that this computer--in 1986--was the first one purchased by the Bristol County, 2nd District Court system.
Below are some images related to the document you just spent time analyzing. This is the set up that was being purchased!
Image courtesy of IBM 
Image courtesy of IBM Collectables
Pay attention to the size of the computer monitor. How big is your laptop screen right now?
How hot do you think this set-up got? do you think a purpose built space was required?
Go back to the document and look at the memory of the CPU.
