Object Details
- Burroughs Corporation
- Description
- This clear plastic flowcharting template has over thirty symbols cut out of it. Scales relating to the design of punch cards are on the left side and the bottom, a scale of inches divided to tenths is at the top, and scales of sixths and eighths of inches are on the right edge. A paper envelope explains the symbols. A mark on the object reads: B. The logo is one that Burroughs Corporation first used in commerce in 1947 and registered in 1969. Another mark reads: THE FLOWCHART TEMPLATE CONTAINED IN THIS ENVELOPE 9/0 IS A SERVICE OF BURROUGHS CORPORATION. . . . Another mark on the envelope mentions Burroughs computers E103, B205, B220, B260, B270, B251, and B5000. This combination of products dates the template to roughly 1965.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Sherman L. and Marjorie A. Naidorf
- ca 1965
- ID Number
- 2005.0055.14
- accession number
- 2005.0055
- catalog number
- 2005.0055.14
- Object Name
- Logic Template
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: .1 cm x 24.5 cm x 13.3 cm; 1/32 in x 9 21/32 in x 5 1/4 in
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Flowcharting Templates
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_1292973
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-b7b0-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
