First Draft of the Programming Language COBOL
date: label: date made
content: 1959
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content: Conference on Data Systems Languages. Language Subcommittee of the Short-Range Committee
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content: During 1959 the first plans for the computer language COBOL emerged as a result of meetings of several committees and subcommittees of programmers from American business and government. This heavily annotated typescript was prepared during a special meeting of the language subcommittee of the Short-Range Committee held in New York City in November. COBOL programs would actually run the following summer, and the same program was successfully tested on computers of two different manufacturers in December 1960.
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content: Reference: Jean E. Sammet, "The Early History of COBOL," <I>History of Programming Languages</I>, ed. Richard L. Wexelblat, New York: Academic Press, 1981, 199-277.
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content: United States: New York, New York City
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: COBOL
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content: Courtesy of Howard Bromberg
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content: National Museum of American History
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content: 2010.3050.4
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content: 2010.3050.4
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content: 2010.3050
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content: documentation
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content: plastic (container material)
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content: paper (inside material)
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content: overall: 12 in x 10 in x 1 3/4 in; 30.48 cm x 25.4 cm x 4.445 cm