Object Details
- author
- Remington Rand Univac. Division of Sperry Rand
- Description
- This wallet-sized card shows punched cards on both sides. One is a ninety-column card with round holes, the other an eighty-column card with rectangular holes. The image of the ninety-column card has text along the left side that reads: Printed in U. S. A. REMINGTON RAND. The image of the eighty-column card has text along the left side that reads: Printed in U. S. A. REMINGTON RAND U-2173.
- Remington Rand tabulating machines had used ninety-column punched cards. By 1959, Remington Rand computers could use either ninety-column punched cards, punched with round holes, or eighty-column cards, punched with rectangular holes. The latter form of card had been introduced by IBM. This small card shows the choices.
- Reference:
- Gille Associates, Inc., The Punched Card Data Processing Annual, 1, 1959, pp. 43-47.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of James P. Greaves
- ca 1955
- ca 1959
- ID Number
- 1997.3012.04.06
- nonaccession number
- 1997.3012
- catalog number
- 1997.3012.04.06
- Object Name
- sheet
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: .1 cm x 9.5 cm x 5.7 cm; 1/32 in x 3 3/4 in x 2 1/4 in
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Computers & Business Machines
- Tabulating Equipment
- Punch Cards
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_690778
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-0cdf-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
