IBM UK 866 Rutherford Laboratory Central Computer System
date: label: date made
content: 1971-1982
name: label: maker
content: IBM
notes: label: Description
content: These two blue eighty-column punch cards have four square corners (none truncated). They are job statement cards for the Rutherford Central Computer System 195. The cards have space for information about a job name, job number, user's identity code, programmer's name, and job parameters.
label: Description
content: Established in 1958, the Rutherford HIgh Energy Laboratory of Britain's National Institute for Research in Nuclear Science was a center for computing in Britain. It installed one IBM 360/195 mainframe computer in 1971, and a second in 1976. These computers ran until 1982.
label: Description
content: A mark on the cards at the top right reads: SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL. A mark on the bottom edge reads: IBM UNITED KINGDOM LIMITED. Another mark there reads: 866-23042.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: See www.chilton-computing.org.uk/ca/technology/s360_195/p007.htm.
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: 1996.0142.31
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0142.31
label: accession number
content: 1996.0142
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Punch Cards, Group Of
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