Fly Swatter Advertising Total Computer Maintenance by Cosmic Enterprises Incorporated
date: label: date made
content: 1984-1996
notes: label: Description
content: This white plastic fly swatter has a hole at the top of the handle for suspension. It is marked on the handle: "WE'LL GET THE BUGS OUT!" (/) COSMIC ENTERPRISES INCORPORATED (/) 617-435-6967, FAX 617-435-6127. It is also marked there: TOTAL COMPUTER (/) MAINTENANCE. The fly swatter was brought to the museum at the time of a 1997 exhibit on computer bugs and formally donated the following year. The donor believes she picked it up at a DECUS (Digital Equipment Computer Users' Society) meeting between 1984 and 1996, more likely toward the end of that period. The area code of the telephone number on the objects suggests that Cosmic Enterprises Incoroprated was in the Boston, Massachusetts, area.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Lisa Thoerle
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1998.3093.01
label: catalog number
content: 1998.3093.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 1998.3093
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fly swatter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .9 cm x 10.6 cm x 39.6 cm; 11/32 in x 4 3/16 in x 15 19/32 in