Card Showing Images of Remington Rand Univac Punched Cards
date: label: date made
content: ca 1955
label: date made
content: ca 1959
name: label: author
content: Remington Rand Univac. Division of Sperry Rand
notes: label: Description
content: This wallet-sized card shows punched cards on both sides. One is a ninety-column card with round holes, the other an eighty-column card with rectangular holes. The image of the ninety-column card has text along the left side that reads: Printed in U. S. A. REMINGTON RAND. The image of the eighty-column card has text along the left side that reads: Printed in U. S. A. REMINGTON RAND U-2173.
label: Description
content: Remington Rand tabulating machines had used ninety-column punched cards. By 1959, Remington Rand computers could use either ninety-column punched cards, punched with round holes, or eighty-column cards, punched with rectangular holes. The latter form of card had been introduced by IBM. This small card shows the choices.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Gille Associates, Inc., <I>The Punched Card Data Processing Annual</I>, 1, 1959, pp. 43-47.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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: Tabulating Equipment
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content: Punch Cards
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of James P. Greaves
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.3012.04.06
label: nonaccession number
content: 1997.3012
label: catalog number
content: 1997.3012.04.06
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sheet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .1 cm x 9.5 cm x 5.7 cm; 1/32 in x 3 3/4 in x 2 1/4 in