Object Details
- IBM
- Description
- In the 1960s, when UCLA (the University of California at Los Angeles) purchased a commercial computer from IBM, students formed a club where they could share their knowledge of the new machines. At that time, data and programs were entered onto computers using punched cards like this one. The decoration of the card was up to the individual customer. This is a pink eighty-column punch card for an IBM computer. Each column contains the digits from 0 to 9. The background of the card shows the head of a moose propped in front of a log. An open book lies on the left, and magnetic tape is in the mouth of the moose.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Douglas W. Jones
- 1960s
- ID Number
- 1996.0142.25
- catalog number
- 1996.0142.25
- accession number
- 1996.0142
- Object Name
- punch card
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: .1 cm x 19 cm x 8.4 cm; 1/16 in x 7 1/2 in x 3 5/16 in
- Place Made
- United States: California, Los Angeles, University of California at Los Angeles
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Computers & Business Machines
- Punch Cards
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Education
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_690512
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-21d1-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
