IBM J95588 Punch Cards for Compucorp Calculators
date: label: date made
content: ca 1972
name: label: maker
content: IBM
notes: label: Description
content: Each of these blue paper punch cards has thirty-two columns with ten small printed rectangles in each column. An additional eight columns on each card are not labeled. The rectangles are suited to easy punching. The cards have square corners, with the right upper corner truncated. Both have a large printed arrow on the left side. A mark on the bottom edge at the left reads: PRINTED IN U.S.A. IBM J95588. A mark on the bottom at the right reads: Compucorp CALCULATORS (/) A DIVISION of COMPUTER DESIGN CORP. (/) LOS ANGELES, CALIF. 90064 U.S.A.
label: Description
content: Computer Design Corporation, founded in 1968, began selling desktop electronic caclulators under the name Compucorp in 1971. Some used punch cards. Rapid changes in microprocessor technology led them to introduce smaller calculators and then, in 1975, to stop selling calculators under the Compucorp name.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Rick Belsene, "The History of Compucorp," website of The Old Calculator Web Museum.
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: 1996.0142.09
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0142.09
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