Bunker-Ramo Corporation Computer Diagarmming Template (Flowcharting Template)
date: label: date made
content: ca 1965
name: label: maker
content: Bunker-Ramo Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This translucent green flowcharting template has a grid of black lines, with twenty-four symbols cut out of it. Three additional cutouts are along the edges. Symbols are not labeled. A six-inch scale along the bottom of the template is divided to sixths of an inch. One along the top is divided to tenths of an inch. Text on the template reads: COMPUTER DIAGRAMMING TEMPLATE. Further text reads: THE BUNKER-RAMO CORPORATION.
label: Description
content: Bunker-Ramo Corporation formed in 1964 as an electronic information-handling company, joining together the electronics system and products division of the Martin-Marietta Corporation, the Teleregister Corporation, and the computer division of Thompson Ramo Wooldridge. One early achievement of the company was a bibliographic system known as RECON developed for NASA. In 1981, the firm was acquired by Allied Corporation.
label: Description
content: This template closely resembles one shown in a 1963 catalog of RapiDesign, Inc. of Burbank, California. It sold at the time for $2.50
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content: References:
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content: William Mitchell, “The Genesis of NASA RECON,” <I>The History and Heritage of Scientific and Technological Information Systems</I>, ed. W. Boyd Rayward and Mary Ellen Bowden, Medford, NJ: Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2004, pp. 228-245.
label: Description
content: Robert J. Cole, “Allied Pays $358 Million for Bunker,” <I>New York Times</I>, May 12, 1981, p. D1.
label: Description
content: RapiDesign, Inc., <I>Drafting Templates Catalogue No. 70</I>, Burbank, California, 1963, p. 14.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Burbank
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: 1996.3015.03
label: catalog number
content: 1996.3015.03
label: nonaccession number
content: 1996.3015
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Logic Template
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .1 cm x 17.5 cm x 10 cm; 1/32 in x 6 7/8 in x 3 15/16 in