Object Details
- Description
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Qualcomm
- date made
- 1994
- Credit Line
- QUALCOMM Incorporated, OmniTRACS Business Unit
- Physical Description
- manufactured (overall production method/technique)
- metal. plastic. (overall material)
- Measurements
- 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
- Object Name
- Micrcomputer Component
- microcomputer component
