Button, Verbatim Corporation
date: label: date made
content: ca 1980
name: label: maker
content: Verbatim
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 in exhibition. The turquoise matchbox reads: Verbatim. It is marked on the reverse: Verbatim Corporation (/) Flexible Disks (/) Digital Cassettes (/) Data Cartridges. Founded in California in 1969, the firm Information Terminals Corporation took the name Verbatim Corporation in 1978 and became known as a maker of computer storage devices. From 1982, it has a variety of foreign owners.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gerald Wright
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0407.11
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0407.11
label: accession number
content: 1990.0407
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Matchbook
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 2 in x 1/4 in; 5.08 cm x 5.08 cm x .635 cm