Object Details
- IBM
- Description
- Two IBM 80-column punch cards, tan. One card has nothing written on the front but the back has a drawing of a circuit, the date FEB 13 1958, and the words Bias Supplies; Wm Pulser; Arithmetic. The second card has a 5 column, 2 row table drawn in pencil on the front and circuit drawings in pencil on the back.
- These two cards were made by IBM for the Electronic Computer Project at Princeton, NJ. This project made the IAS computer, considered by some to be the first American computer (it had stored programs, which the ENIAC did not). These cards may represent the first punch cards used with an American electronic computer.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Princeton University
- ca 1955
- ca 1955
- ID Number
- CI.320250.05
- accession number
- 220575
- catalog number
- 320250.05
- Object Name
- punch cards, group of
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 8.3 cm x 18.8 cm; 3 9/32 in x 7 13/32 in
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Computers & Business Machines
- Punch Cards
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1848502
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-843c-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
