CDC 88157 Punch Card
date: label: date made
content: 1960s
name: label: maker
content: Control Data
notes: label: Description
content: This eighty-column paper punch card is cream-colored. It has square corners and the top left corner is truncated. A mark at the top of the card reads: FORTRAN STATEMENT. A mark on the bottom toward the left reads: CDC 88157. Both Control Data Corporation and IBM issued cards with the number 88157 specifically for entering programs in the language FORTRAN. The first five columns on the card were a label field, the sixth a continuation field (e.g. if the column was not blank or a zero, the problem statement was assumed to be continued on the next card) , and columns 7 through 72 gave that problem statement).
label: Description
content: The programming language FORTRAN was introduced by IBM in 1956 and 1957, and proved popular in the 1960s. Hence the rough date assigned to the card.
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: 1996.0142.02
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0142.02
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