OmniTRACS Operator Keyboard And Display Unit
date: label: date made
content: 1994
name: label: maker
content: Qualcomm
notes: label: Description
content: This is the input and display unit of the OmniTRACS satellite-based two-way data messaging, automatic vehicle positioning, and dispatch system. It helped transportation companies to keep track of the whereabouts of truck shipments in real time. Combined with Web-based software and wireless data networks, it allowed both transporters and buyers to track shipments.
label: Description
content: The application was written and ran in a pure Microsoft® environment, featuring the Microsoft Windows® Distributed interNet Application (DNA) architecture with Component Object Model (COM) technology, the Microsoft Visual Studio® 6.0 suite of programming tools, and Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Enterprise Edition. The application was capable of scaling to handle two million database transactions a day, representing tracking activities for approximately 100,000 trucks.
label: Description
content: A mark on the upper left of the object reads: QUALCOMM (/) INCORPORATED. A tag on the bottom reads: QUALCOMM (/) INCORPORATED (/) San Diego, California 92121 (/) CODE IDENT: 1DN14 (/) MODEL NUMBER: CV90-3656-1. It als reads: MFG: PCI (MADE IN SINGAPORE (/) MFG DATE: S9445. Another small tag reads: MADE IN TAIWAN.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: QUALCOMM Incorporated, OmniTRACS Business Unit
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1994.0384.03
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0384.03
label: accession number
content: 1994.0384
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Micrcomputer Component
label: Object Name
content: microcomputer component
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: manufactured (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: metal. plastic. (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6.5 cm x 29.6 cm x 20.2 cm; 2 9/16 in x 11 5/8 in x 7 15/16 in