IBM X24-5884-5 Auto-translator and Flowcharting Template
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
- See more items in
- 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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