Federal Express COSMOS Tracking System, 9036 Universal Mobile Communications Terminal
date: label: date made
content: 1980
notes: label: Description
content: This terminal, from the COSMOS Tracking System used by Federal Express collected data from the SuperTracker scanner, and automatically sent it through the communication radio to the host computer. It also received data from the host computer that it could communicate on a screen to the agent or be used to update the information in the SuperTracker scanner. DADS means Digitally Assisted Dispatch Systems.
label: Description
content: The instrument has a black plastic case and a metal back. The front has an array of blue and black plastic keys, a second array of black and yellow keys, a screen, two white knobs, and a hole that holds the scanner (1993.0228.01). A metal bench vise with a black plastic knob is attached to the bottom. There is a large capacitor with a blue covering at the back. A mark on the front reads:9036 UNIVERSAL MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS TERMINAL MDI. It is also marked: FEDERAL EXPRESS, A metal tag glued to the back reads: MOBILE DATA INTERNATIONAL, INC. (/) MODEL (/) 9036 (/) SERIAL (/) 15556. Also reads: MADE IN SINGAPORE.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Carl Niehls, “Custodial Package Tracking at Federal Express,” in <i>Managing Innovation: Cases from the Services Industries</i>, ed. Bruce R. Guile and James Brian Quinn (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1988), 57–81.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Singapore
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Federal Express
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.0228.03
label: catalog number
content: 1993.0228.03
label: accession number
content: 1993.0228
objectType: label: Object Name
content: terminal
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 35 cm x 27 cm x 27.5 cm; 13 25/32 in x 10 5/8 in x 10 13/16 in