This circular button has a bright blue background which fades to pale blue at the bottom. The red text reads: "ViewSonic BOOTH #652E." Above the text is the company logo, three colorful birds sitting on green branch. A mark in green ink on the reverse reads: "CDX 4/92."
ViewSonic Corp.is a provider of visual display products. Corporate headquarters are in Brea, California. The company was founded in 1987 by James Chu as Keypoint Technology Corporation; it specialized in computer peripherals. In 1990 they introduced the ViewSonic brand of color monitors and shortly thereafter Chu refocused the company to concentrate on computer visual display products. The company was renamed ViewSonic and the three colorful birds (Gouldian finches) were chosen as the company symbol.
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https://www.viewsonic.com/us/about-us
[Last accessed 6/16/2019]
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