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IBM X24-5884-5 Auto-translator and Flowcharting Template

National Museum of American History

Object Details

IBM
Description
This clear plastic instrument is colored white around the edges, with a grid of black lines and twenty-eight cutout regions. Across the top is a scale of alphabetic interpreter type spacing. Across the bottom is a scale of card columns and mark sensing. On the right is a scale of card volume. On the left is a scale relating to end printing. A mark on the object reads: IBM DIAGRAMMING TEMPLATE (/) X24-5884-5.
The flowcharting template fits in a yellow paper envelope, which has explanations for the symbols. It refers to IBM document C20-8008.
Also received in this envelope is a red and white plastic chart labeled: AUTO-TRANSLATOR Programmer's Aid for Translating Between (/) Machine Code And Actual Addresses For IBM 1401/1440/1460 Computers. Another mark on the chart reads: Copyright 1964. A third mark on it reads: ARCHER INDUSTRIES
Reference:
IBM, Reference Manual. Flow Charting and Block Diagramming Techniques, White Plains, IBM, 1959, esp. p. 4. This is IBM document C20-8008, dated September, 1959.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Gift of Joan P. Nichols
1959, 1964
ID Number
1996.3015.05
catalog number
1996.3015.05
nonaccession number
1996.3015
Object Name
Logic Template
Physical Description
plastic (overall material)
paper (overall material)
Measurements
overall: .1 cm x 26 cm x 10.9 cm; 1/32 in x 10 1/4 in x 4 9/32 in
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Medicine and Science: Mathematics
Flowcharting Templates
Science & Mathematics
National Museum of American History
Subject
Mathematics
Record ID
nmah_690231
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0
GUID (Link to Original Record)
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-0a38-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

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