Advertising Button, Distributed Processing Technology (DPT)
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content: This circular button has a mirrored background with green text that reads: "Look into Smart Cache Disk Mirroring." Green text along the bottom reads: "DPT (407) 830 5522." On the reverse is a blue sticker with white text reading: "SHATTERPROOF MIRRORS WITH A MESSAGE, VIRTUALLY UNBREAKABLE, Clean with soft cloth and acrylic cleaner."
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content: DPT, Distributed Processing Technology of Maitland, FL, released in 1988 a disk caching controller card that improved disk performance. It could read and write to the cache at the same time as the controller accessed the disk.
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content: References: [last accessed 2019-08-14]
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content: InfoWorld, March 14, 1988, p. 49. (review of DPT’s disk caching controller card.)
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content: InfoWorld, September 19, 1988, p. 29. (review of disk controllers that speed disk access.)
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Advertising
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content: Computers & Business Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: David DeJean
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2009.3071.557
label: catalog number
content: 2009.3071.557
label: nonaccession number
content: 2009.3071
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button, advertising
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 9/16 in; x 6.477 cm