Class Admission Card, Queensborough Community College
date: label: date made
content: 1972
name: label: maker
content: IBM
notes: label: Description
content: This pink 80-column punch card is marked in the lower left corner: IBM N87434. It is marked at the center: MAKE ENTRIES ABOVE THIS LINE (/) QUEENSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE (/) The City University of New York (/) CLASS ADMISSION CARD. Looked at from the back, the punches on the card make an image of a Christmas tree and spell out the works: MERRY (/) XMAS.
label: Description
content: Donor of the card Marvin Klein reported that the card was desgned for use in part of the registration process for students. He worked in the computer center as a mainframe operator durning his student days at the college, which lasted from September 1971 to June 1973. Hence the date of 1972 assigned to the card.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Marvin and Francine Klein
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2023.0007.01
label: catalog number
content: 2023.0007.01
label: accession number
content: 2023.0007
objectType: label: Object Name
content: punch card
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: .1 cm x 18.7 cm x 8.3 cm; 1/32 in x 7 3/8 in x 3 9/32 in