"Loose Bits Sink Chips "
date: label: date made
content: 1982
name: label: maker
content: Computerworld
notes: label: Description
content: This object is part of a set of materials (much of it advertising ephemera) relating to computing donated to the Smithsonian for possible use its Information Age exhibition. The red button reads: Loose Bits (/) Sink Chips (/) COMPUTERWORLD. In 1979, the trade publication <I>Computerworld</I> held its first annual button contest (for one of the reulting buttons, see 1990.0407.04). The "loose bits sink ships" slogan was a winning suggestion in the third contest, held in 1981 with results reported in 1982. It was proposed by Richard Neuville Jr. of Pera in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Pera seems to have been an organization (or group of organizations?) associated with the U.S. Navy.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Susan Blakeney, "Winners Announced in CW Button Contest," <I>Computerworld</I>, March 29, 1982, vol. 16 #13, p. 14.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Advertising
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content: Computers & Business Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gerald Wright
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0407.09
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0407.09
label: accession number
content: 1990.0407
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button, advertising
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in; x 5.715 cm