RCA Electronic Data Processing Flowcharting Template
date: label: date made
content: ca 1960
label: date made
content: ca 1965
name: label: maker
content: RCA Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: RCA sold computers from 1958 until 1971. It had embraced the flow chart [sic] as a tool of industrial design by 1960.
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: <I>RCA Engineer</I>, vol. 6, #4, December 1960-January 1961. This issue of the magazine includes several flow charts.
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: Flowcharting Templates
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Joan P. Nichols
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1996.3015.01
label: catalog number
content: 1996.3015.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 1996.3015
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Logic Template
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .1 cm x 10.5 cm x 25.8 cm; 1/32 in x 4 1/8 in x 10 5/32 in