IBM 827213 Punch Cards for the Electronic Computer Project at Princeton University
date: label: date made
content: ca 1955
label: date made
content: ca 1955
name: label: maker
content: IBM
notes: label: Description
content: Two IBM 80-column punch cards, tan. One card has nothing written on the front but the back has a drawing of a circuit, the date FEB 13 1958, and the words Bias Supplies; Wm Pulser; Arithmetic. The second card has a 5 column, 2 row table drawn in pencil on the front and circuit drawings in pencil on the back.
label: Description
content: These two cards were made by IBM for the Electronic Computer Project at Princeton, NJ. This project made the IAS computer, considered by some to be the first American computer (it had stored programs, which the ENIAC did not). These cards may represent the first punch cards used with an American electronic computer.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: Punch Cards
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Princeton University
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CI.320250.05
label: accession number
content: 220575
label: catalog number
content: 320250.05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: punch cards, group of
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8.3 cm x 18.8 cm; 3 9/32 in x 7 13/32 in