Wang LOCi-2 Card Reader
Object Details
- Wang Laboratories
- Description
- The Wang LOCI-2 is one of relatively few calculators that had a variety of peripheral equipment. Included in the price of the machine was this metal card reader, painted light blue. It read specially designed punched program cards. A card is in the reader.
- A mark on the bottom of the card reader reads: Wang Laboratories, Inc. (/) ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS AND DEVICES (/) LOCI CARD READER (/) MODEL NO. [blank] (/) SERLAL NO. 22806 (/) TEWKSBURY, MASS. U.S.A.
- For further information about the LOCI II, see 1980.0096.01.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Computer Sciences Corporation
- 1965 or later
- ID Number
- 1980.0096.01.1
- accession number
- 1980.0096
- catalog number
- 1980.0096.01.1
- Object Name
- electronic calculator peripheral
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 4 in x 8 1/2 in x 6 in; 10.16 cm x 21.59 cm x 15.24 cm
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Tewksbury
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Computers & Business Machines
- Desktop Electronic Calculators
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Business
- Record ID
- nmah_1196402
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-664b-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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