Object Details
- RCA Corporation
- Description
- This clear plastic flowcharting template has a grid of lines marked on it., with some line segments darkened to assist in aligning the symbols on a flowchart. Many of the twenty-six symbols are labeled. A scale of printer spacing runs from 0 to 90 across the top and a scale of card volume runs from 0 to 450 on the left. The white paper envelope holding the template explains many of the symbols. A mark on the bottom right reads: ELECTRONIC DATA PROCESSING RCA (/) 28-00-108. A reference mentioned on envelope is: RCA EDP Manual, Flow Charting Standards for Information Processing, 97-05-001.
- RCA sold computers from 1958 until 1971. It had embraced the flow chart [sic] as a tool of industrial design by 1960.
- Reference:
- RCA Engineer, vol. 6, #4, December 1960-January 1961. This issue of the magazine includes several flow charts.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Joan P. Nichols
- ca 1960
- ca 1965
- ID Number
- 1996.3015.01
- catalog number
- 1996.3015.01
- nonaccession number
- 1996.3015
- Object Name
- Logic Template
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: .1 cm x 10.5 cm x 25.8 cm; 1/32 in x 4 1/8 in x 10 5/32 in
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Flowcharting Templates
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_690227
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-0993-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
