REM Card Game
date: label: date made
content: ca 1984
notes: label: Description
content: "REM, A Card Game for the Computer Age" contains forty-nine plastic coated playing cards and playing instructions in an orange cardboard box. The instructions are printed on similar "playing" cards. This set is missing the paper scoring pad (in the form of "miniature computer paper" listed on the box as part of the contents. The game is designed to teach seventeen commonly used terms and can be played by two to six players, children and adults.
label: Description
content: The game was designed by Carlton Dale Reinhard of Hamilton, Indiana, with the term REM and the icon of a computer disc trademarked by him in the U.S. in 1984. The game was particularly intended to provide a rough introduction to the BASIC programming language.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Martin Campbell-Kelly
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0328.01
label: accession number
content: 1988.0328
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0328.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Game
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: box: 5 7/8 in x 3 5/8 in x 7/8 in; 14.9225 cm x 9.2075 cm x 2.2225 cm