Sheet, IBM Form I.T.S. 1000 A 1033
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content: IBM
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content: This unmarked answer sheet, published by IBM, is for standardized tests. There is room for 300 answers which may be either “A” or “B” (e.g. a total of 600 marks). These answers were to be entered with a pencil – the sheet warns: BE SURE YOUR ANSWERS ARE HEAVY AND BLACK. (/) ERASE COMPLETELY ANY ANSWER YOU WISH TO CHANGE. Another mark on the card reads: IBM FORM I.T.S. 1000 A 1003. The name of the test for which this is a score sheet is not listed. The information requested is that one would expect to ask of adults.
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content: IBM entered the test scoring business in 1937 with the introduction if the IBM 805, a device that was sold through 1963.
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content: References on IBM and Watson Labs:
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content: Bashe, Charles J.; Lyle R. Johnson; John H. Palmer; Emerson W. Pugh, <I>IBM’s Early Computers</I>, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1985.
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content: Brennan, Jean Ford, <I>The IBM Watson Laboratory at Columbia University: A History</I>, Armonk, NY: IBM, 1971.
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content: Eames, Charles and Ray, <I>A Computer Perspective: Background to the Computer Age</I>, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1973.
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content: Wood, Ben D., "Analysis of College Test Results", in Baehne, George W., <I>Practical Applications of the Punched Card Method in Colleges and Universities, New York: Columbia University Press , 1935.
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content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Psychological Tests
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Gift of David Gold
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content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0710.63
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content: 1989.0710
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content: 1989.0710.63
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content: sheet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: overall: 21.5 cm x 28 cm; 8 15/32 in x 11 1/32 in