IBM B92982 Punch Card for Hewlett-Packard Educational BASIC
date: label: date made
content: ca 1970
name: label: maker
content: IBM
notes: label: Description
content: In March of 1968, Hewlett Packard introduced a version of the programming language BASIC for use on its timesharing electronic computers. By 1970, the company had developed “Hewlett-Packard Educational BASIC” for use in educational settings, both with computers and especially with programmable desktop calculators. This punch card is for writing programs in that language. The card was to be marked with a pencil rather than punched, making it more affordable. Inexpensive handheld electronic calculators soon displaced desktop machines in the classroom, and cards of this type were never widely used.
label: Description
content: The cream-colored card has square corners and truncated left corner. There are four columns for the statement number, two columns of the statement, thirty columns for letters, numbers, or punctuation marks, and a final column to indicate whether the statement continues on the next card - a total of thirty-seven columns..
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content: References:
label: Description
content: <I>HP Journal</I>, November, 1968 and October, 1970.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: Punch Cards
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Douglas W. Jones
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1996.0142.13
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0142.13
label: accession number
content: 1996.0142
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Punch Card
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .1 cm x 19 cm x 8.4 cm; 1/32 in x 7 15/32 in x 3 5/16 in