Bound Printout from COBOL Test Program Run December 6, 1960, at RCA
date: label: date made
content: 1960
name: label: maker
content: RCA Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: COBOL was one of the first programming languages designed to run on computers built by several different manufacturers. In December 1960 programmers at Remington Rand UNIVAC and at RCA successfully ran the same COBOL test programs on a Univac II and an RCA 501 computer.
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content: This is the printout from the RCA demonstration. It contains two programs. One produces a profit and loss report for a corporation. It is a modification of a program developed by Warren G. Simmons of US Steel for a UNIVAC II.
label: Description
content: According to the printout, the actual program used in the test was written by J. Farinelli. This was probably programmer Joseph D. Farinelli of US Steel. The second program, which computes cash sales and credit balances, was written by Carl H. Thorne Jr. of the General Services Administration for an RCA computer.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: New Jersey, Cherry Hill
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: COBOL
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Courtesy of Howard Bromberg
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.3050.2
label: catalog number
content: 2010.3050.2
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content: 2010.3050
objectType: label: Object Name
content: documentation
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 16 in x 2 5/16 in; 30.48 cm x 40.64 cm x 5.842 cm