Software, Reel of Magnetic Tape for the UNIVAC with COBOL Compiler
date: label: date made
content: ca 1960
name: label: maker
content: Remington Rand Univac
notes: label: Description
content: Programs and data were entered into many early computers, including those made by Univac and RCA, using reels of magnetic tape like this one. This particular tape carried a compiler for the programming language COBOL. A COBOL program first ran successfully on computers made by two different manufacturers in 1960, symbolizing the birth of one of the first common programming languages. This is not the compiler used in December, 1960 - that is object CI.317980.01.
label: Description
content: Computer programmers would come to expect that different brands of computer ran the same languages. COBOL became a routine tool for business programming.
label: Description
content: The reel is marked: UNIVAC. It is also marked: COBOL.
label: Description
content: The object reportedly came to the museum in 1978.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2014.3039.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 2014.3039
label: catalog number
content: 2014.3039.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: software
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (reel, tape material)
label: Physical Description
content: ribbon, plastic (holder material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2.2 cm x 20.4 cm x 20.4 cm; 7/8 in x 8 1/32 in x 8 1/32 in