Reel of Magnetic Tape with COBOL Compiler
date: label: date made
content: 1960
name: label: maker
content: Remington Rand Univac
notes: label: Description
content: Programs and data were entered into many early computers, including those made by Univac and RCA, using reels of magnetic tape like this one. This particular tape carried a compiler for the programming language COBOL. It was used in December 1960, when a COBOL program first ran successfully on computers made by two different manufacturers. Thus it stands as a symbol of the birth of one of the first common programming languages. Computer programmers would come to expect that different brands of computers ran the same languages. COBOL became a routine tool for business programming.
label: Description
content: The reel is marked: UNIVAC. It is also marked: COBOL. A piece of tape attached to the back reads: 12/6/60 UNIVAC COBOL COMPILER 2319 UC.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: American Enterprise
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content: COBOL
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from US Department of Defense
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CI.317980.01
label: catalog number
content: 317980.01
label: accession number
content: 317980
objectType: label: Object Name
content: software
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 8 in x 8 in; 1.905 cm x 20.32 cm x 20.32 cm