Computers & Business Machines

Apple II Personal Computer

Imagine the loss, 100 years from now, if museums hadn't begun preserving the artifacts of the computer age. The last few decades offer proof positive of why museums must collect continuously—to document technological and social transformations already underway.

The museum's collections contain mainframes, minicomputers, microcomputers, and handheld devices. Computers range from the pioneering ENIAC to microcomputers like the Altair and the Apple I. A Cray2 supercomputer is part of the collections, along with one of the towers of IBM's Deep Blue, the computer that defeated reigning champion Garry Kasparov in a chess match in 1997. Computer components and peripherals, games, software, manuals, and other documents are part of the collections. Some of the instruments of business include adding machines, calculators, typewriters, dictating machines, fax machines, cash registers, and photocopiers

Topic: Mathematics

National Cash Register, Model 1544 (4D-1)

This NCR cash register has four drawers in two columns. It has four columns of plastic digit keys, white for dollars, tens of dollars, and 5 cents, and black for cents. A column of four keys right of the number keys has keys labeled A1, 6, B2 and B2.
Description
This NCR cash register has four drawers in two columns. It has four columns of plastic digit keys, white for dollars, tens of dollars, and 5 cents, and black for cents. A column of four keys right of the number keys has keys labeled A1, 6, B2 and B2. Right of these is a lever, which can be set on the operation desired, and a motor bar. The paper tape holder is on the right side, the indicators are above the keyboard, and the electric cord is at the back. The serial number is 4931871, the model number 1544 (4D-1).
The machine was used at Lansburgh department store in downtown Washington, D.C. When City Stores Company purchased Lansburgh, they gave the machine to the Smithsonian.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1952
maker
National Cash Register Company
ID Number
MA.334906
maker number
4931871
accession number
314157
catalog number
334906

Software on CD (Computer Viruses), The Collection, Outlaws from America's Wild West Release 2.00

The compact disc contains live computer viruses (over 500 viruses), anti-virus programs and utilities, source listings for viruses, virus simulator programs, virus information programs and text, virus creation tools, and newsletters and literature related to viruses.
Description
The compact disc contains live computer viruses (over 500 viruses), anti-virus programs and utilities, source listings for viruses, virus simulator programs, virus information programs and text, virus creation tools, and newsletters and literature related to viruses. Title of the cd is "The Collection Outlaws from America's Wild West." It was sold by American Eagle Publications, Inc. in Tucson, Arizona for "serious researchers and programmers who have a legitimate need to know the information it contains." The copyright date is 1996 and the release version is 2.00.
See related object 2017.3018.01
Location
Currently not on view
copyright date
1996
publisher; distributor
American Eagle Publications, Inc.
ID Number
2017.3018.02
nonaccession number
2017.3018
catalog number
2017.3018.02

Punch Cards Used with a PDP-9 Minicomputer

In the mid-1960s, the Computer Science Department at RAND Corporation turned its attention to developing computer graphics.
Description
In the mid-1960s, the Computer Science Department at RAND Corporation turned its attention to developing computer graphics. A set of programs written in the programming language FORTRAN for the PDP-9 minicomputer were used to plot contour lines useful in determining the line of sight for microwave radiation emitted from a given point on a map. These cards have some of the data for one of these programs. The cards are white with a pink border on the top.
Groups of cards are numbered from 16 through 30. A mark on the top card reads: DATE GENERATED 4-11-68.The program has non-accession number 1990.3046.10.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1968
maker
IBM
ID Number
1990.3046.03
catalog number
1990.3046.03
nonaccession number
1990.3046

Patent Order Punch Cards

This set of six orange punch cards each have 53 columns. The standard IBM punch card has 80 columns.
Description
This set of six orange punch cards each have 53 columns. The standard IBM punch card has 80 columns. Each card is marked PO-33, PATENT ORDER (Letter Unit) on the left edge, and IBM D7 7517 on the bottom edge.
The following information is punched and printed on each card, the unique patent number, the same customer number (11530), month (01), day (29), and serv. code (6M). These cards were used by the U.S. Patent Office when filling requests for copies of patents.
Location
Currently not on view
maker
IBM
ID Number
2017.3122.02
nonaccession number
2017.3122
catalog number
2017.3122.02

GRiD CASE 1530 Laptop Computer

The 1980s were a time of rapid change in personal computing. Relatively light, battery-operated laptop computers became available. From 1982, the California firm of GRiD Computer Systems, Inc., sold laptop computers of this type, using Intel microprocessors.
Description
The 1980s were a time of rapid change in personal computing. Relatively light, battery-operated laptop computers became available. From 1982, the California firm of GRiD Computer Systems, Inc., sold laptop computers of this type, using Intel microprocessors. Examples of early GRiD laptops were purchased by NASA, flew on the Space Shuttle in 1990, and survive in the collections of the National Air and Space Museum. This is a later GRiD laptop from the CASE 1500 series. The owner, Victor Yuliano of Arlington Virginia, first purchased the machine with an Intel 80286 chip in 1989 (the CASE 1520), and then upgraded to a 80386 chip and larger memory in 1991, creating a CASE 1530. Also included are cables, a carrying case, and a battery. Yuliano kept the machine running until late 1996. A template received with the machine indicates that it was used with the word processing language WordPerfect.
For related documentation, see non-accession 2015.3168.
Reference:
Accession file.
Location
Currently not on view
Date made
ca 1989
Approx. 1989
maker
GRiD Systems
animator
Dope, John
ID Number
1997.0124.01
accession number
1997.0124
catalog number
1997.0124.01

Booklet, A Report of Automatic Records, Inc., with Leaflet on EMC (Electronic Merchandise Control)

This booklet describes the development of the 3M Company Merchandise Data Recorder (see 1984.0932.01 for an example).
Description
This booklet describes the development of the 3M Company Merchandise Data Recorder (see 1984.0932.01 for an example). In a plastic pocket at the back of the binder is an advertising leaflet discussing EMC (Electronic Merchandise Control) and showing the system in use.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1965
ID Number
1984.0932.02
accession number
1984.0932
catalog number
1984.0932.02

Book, The Great International Math on Keys Book

This paperback volume, developed by the Texas Instruments Learning Center, is an introduction to using a handheld electronic calculator (particularly a TI-30 or SR-40) to do mathematics.Currently not on view
Description
This paperback volume, developed by the Texas Instruments Learning Center, is an introduction to using a handheld electronic calculator (particularly a TI-30 or SR-40) to do mathematics.
Location
Currently not on view
Date made
1976
publisher
Texas Instruments Incorporated
author
Texas Instruments Learning Center
ID Number
1982.3001.16
catalog number
1982.3001.16
nonaccession number
1982.3001

BP-16309 BSC Punch Cards for AFL-CIO Publications

Punched cards were used not only in government, business, and universities, but by labor unions. These white, eighty-column punch cards are printed in gray. They have spaces for the name, address, local number and ledger id number of member of the AFL-CIO.
Description
Punched cards were used not only in government, business, and universities, but by labor unions. These white, eighty-column punch cards are printed in gray. They have spaces for the name, address, local number and ledger id number of member of the AFL-CIO. A mark along the left edge reads: AFL-CIO PUBLICATIONS. A mark on the right edge reads: BP-16309 BSC. The cards were received in a tabulating machine (reproducer) with catalog number 336301.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
ca 1955
ID Number
MA.305981.08
accession number
305981
catalog number
305981.08

Diskette with Text for September 11 Witness Story Web Page

This 3 1/2" diskette contains the text used for the September 11 Witness Story page on the NMAH website.Web designer David McOwen, a member of the New Media Office at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, used these materials when designing sections of the NMAH w
Description
This 3 1/2" diskette contains the text used for the September 11 Witness Story page on the NMAH website.
Web designer David McOwen, a member of the New Media Office at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, used these materials when designing sections of the NMAH website.
The entire Smithsonian website is preserved by the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
2002
ID Number
2017.3148.03
nonaccession number
2017.3148
catalog number
2017.3148.03

Graduate Record Examination Punch Cards

The Carnegie Foundation, and later the Educational Testing Service, used several forms of punched card in compiling and reporting information on the tests it administered. Three types are included here. All relate to Graduate Record Examination Individual Report Cards.
Description
The Carnegie Foundation, and later the Educational Testing Service, used several forms of punched card in compiling and reporting information on the tests it administered. Three types are included here. All relate to Graduate Record Examination Individual Report Cards. One has the number IBM 138707 (four examples), one IBM 140086 (eleven examples), and another IBM 140088 (three examples). One card is punched.
The cards were produced under U.S. Patent 1,772.492, taken out by Clair D. Lake in 1930 and assigned to IBM. The Graduate Record Examination was first administered in 1937 and kept the New York City address shown on the cards through at least 1951.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
ca 1950
maker
IBM
ID Number
1995.3080.03
nonaccession number
1995.3080
catalog number
1995.3080.03

JTC E-7583 1967 Punch Cards with Bell Telephone Laboratories Logo

One of these eighty-column punch cards is blue, the other yellow. The corners are rounded with the upper left hand corner truncated. A Bell Telephone Laboratories logo is at the center of both cards.
Description
One of these eighty-column punch cards is blue, the other yellow. The corners are rounded with the upper left hand corner truncated. A Bell Telephone Laboratories logo is at the center of both cards. A mark along the bottom edge of both cards reads: BELL TELEPHONE LABORATORIES, INCORPORATED JTC 1967 MILITARY MANUFACTURING INFORMATION DEPT. E-7583-E(7-57). A mark along the left side reads: GENERAL APPLICATIONS CARD.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
ca 1967
maker
Jersey Tab Card Corporation
ID Number
1996.0142.04
catalog number
1996.0142.04
accession number
1996.0142

National Cash Register, Model 313

This 1913 National Cash Register Company cash register has an ornate brass exterior with a marble plate above the cash drawer. In addition to the wooden cash drawer and pop-up indicators at the top, the machine had two rows of keys.
Description
This 1913 National Cash Register Company cash register has an ornate brass exterior with a marble plate above the cash drawer. In addition to the wooden cash drawer and pop-up indicators at the top, the machine had two rows of keys. Keys in the top row are numbered 90, 70, 50, 35, 25, 15,and 5 (the rightmost key is missing a label). Keys in the bottom row are labeled $1, 80, 60, 40, 30, 20, 10 (the rightmost key is missing a label). Inside a locked compartment above the keys is a register that reads dollars and cents up to $9999.99, a four-digit customer counter, and a two-digit no sale counter. The machine has no mechanism to assist the clerk in adding up totals for individual sales and no paper tape to serve as a receipt. It has serial number 1265603.
By this time, aggressive sales tactics, numerous acquisitions, and frequent lawsuits had won NCR dominance in the cash register market. The firm also trained numerous young executives, including Thomas J. Watson. When the U.S. government found NCR in violation of antitrust law, several of these executives, including Watson, were fired. Watson was soon hired by the Computing Tabulating Machine Company of Endicott, New York, becoming the president of a firm that soon was known as IBM.
References:
Cortada, James. Before the Computer: IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand and the Industry They Created. 1865-1956, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Crandall, Robert L. and Sam Robins. The Incorruptible Cashier, vol. II, Vestal, N.Y.: The Vestal Press, 1990.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1913
maker
National Cash Register Company
ID Number
MA.333754
accession number
302254
catalog number
333754

IBM 001Card Punch

For the first half of the 20th century, much data was entered into data processing machines using punched cards. This machine for punching such cards was manufactured by International Business Machines Corporation of New York.This key-driven, manual punch has 14 black keys.
Description
For the first half of the 20th century, much data was entered into data processing machines using punched cards. This machine for punching such cards was manufactured by International Business Machines Corporation of New York.
This key-driven, manual punch has 14 black keys. Twelve are for the 12 rows on a punch card. These are labeled from 0 to 9, X, and blank. Another key moves the card one space to the left and the last releases it. Keys are fed in from the right. A portion of a punch card attached in back of the machine has a pointer attached to it which allows one to determine the column of the card one is punching. The device is set up for 80-column cards and punches rectangular holes. A cylindrical protrusion extends from the back of the machine.
A metal tag attached to the front of the object reads: PROPERTY OF (/) INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP. (/) 001-12036-JH (/) ENDICOTT, NEW YORK, U.S.A. A mark stamped into the back of the card bed reads: 01 202.Two rods are marked at the front below the punching position: 202.
IBM cards with rectangular holes and 80 columns were introduced in 1928. Cards with 12 rows of holes date from the early 1930s.
Reference:
E. W. Pugh, Building IBM: Shaping an Industry and Its Technology, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995, pp. 48–49.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
after 1930
maker
International Business Machines Corporation
ID Number
MA.333894
accession number
304350
catalog number
333894

IBM Israel Punch Cards (Hebrew)

These two cream-colored eighty-column cards have rounded corners and are truncated in the upper left corner. A mark near the bottom edge reads: 7561239. A mark across the front is in Hebrew.
Description
These two cream-colored eighty-column cards have rounded corners and are truncated in the upper left corner. A mark near the bottom edge reads: 7561239. A mark across the front is in Hebrew. The donor reported that the cards were from IBM Israel.
Reference:
Accession file.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1960s-1970s
maker
IBM
ID Number
1996.0142.35
catalog number
1996.0142.35
accession number
1996.0142

Cash Register with Display Cases, possibly by Waddell

This device consists of a wooden cash register between two wooden and glass display cases. Amounts are entered by dropping balls into holes for 1, 2, 5,10, 25, and 50 cents, and 1 and 5 dollars. Another hole is labeled "Ticket".
Description
This device consists of a wooden cash register between two wooden and glass display cases. Amounts are entered by dropping balls into holes for 1, 2, 5,10, 25, and 50 cents, and 1 and 5 dollars. Another hole is labeled "Ticket". From these holes at the back of the machine, the balls slide forward and accumulate in slots on top of the cash drawer. Pop-up numbers above the holes rise up when a ball is dropped. Neither these numbers nor for the slots have any cover.
This object resembles several devices manufactured in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Greenfield, Ohio. It is quite similar to a “cash indicator and register” patented by J. H Schnarrenberger of Greenfield in 1891 (U.S. patent 465732). These cash registers were manufactured by firms associated with John M. Waddel (also spelled John M. Waddell), whose primary business was in the building of display cases and other business furniture.
Compare to the description of the Waddel, Simplex, and Sun cash registers given in Crandall. Papers of the Waddell Company are at the Ohio Historical Society. By 1929, the Waddell Company was selling a combination of three adjacent display cases, with a money drawer under the shallower middle case. There was no cash register in this later item.
References:
Richard L. Crandall, The Incorruptible Cashier, Vestal, N.Y.: Vestal Press, 1988, vol. 1, pp. 133–147.
Waddell Company, Show Cases, Store Furniture Catalogue No. 109, Greenfield, OH: Waddell Co., Inc., 1929, pp. 10–11.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
ca 1895
ID Number
MA.325694
accession number
256655
catalog number
325694

Model of Babbage's Difference Engine No. 1 - Replica

This is a replica of the portion of a difference engine built by Charles Babbage in 1832. Babbage, an English mathematician, hoped to compute and to print astronomical tables by machine.
Description
This is a replica of the portion of a difference engine built by Charles Babbage in 1832. Babbage, an English mathematician, hoped to compute and to print astronomical tables by machine. He proposed to estimate the value of functions using polynomials, and to use the method of finite distances to compute results.
Babbage never completed either a difference engine or a more complex, programmable instrument he dubbed an analytical engine.
The machine has three columns of discs. The leftmost column has six discs, each with the numbers from 0 to 9. The middle column has seven discs. The six lower ones each have the digits from 0 to 9. The uppermost disc is marked as indicated. The rightmost column has five discs numbered from 0 to 9. Above these are four discs, similarly numbered, that are immediately adjacent to one another. On the top of the machine are a gear train and a handle. The machine has a metal framework and a wooden base. The replica has containers for springs, but no springs.
The overall dimensions include the handle. Without it, the dimensions are: 59 cm. w. x 43.5 cm. d. x 72 cm. h.
The replica was built for display in the first exhibition devoted to mathematics and computing at the Museum of History and Technology (now the National Museum of American History). A similar replica is in the collections of IBM Corporation.
The original on which this replica is based is at the Science Museum in London. That museum also displays a more recent attempt to build a working version of Babbage’s difference engine.
References:
Merzbach, Uta C., Georg Scheutz and the First Printing Calculator, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1977.
D. Pantalony, “Collectors Displays and Replicas in Context What We Can Learn from Provenance Research in Science Museums,” in The Romance of Science: Essays in Honour of Trevor H. Levere, eds. Jed Buchwald and Larry Stewart, Cham: Springer, 2017, pp.257-275, esp. pp.268-273. This article discusses replicas of the Babbage difference engine, but not the one at the Smithsonian, which was by a different maker than other replicas provided by IBM.
Swade, Doron. The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer, New York: Viking, 2000.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
ca 1963
date received
1963
maker
Daniel I. Hadley & Associates
ID Number
MA.323584
accession number
252309
catalog number
323584

Wright Model 2000 Card Punch

This portable key punch for preparing punched cards was manufactured by the Massachusetts firm of Wright Line. Punched cards were central to large-scale data processing in the United States from the introduction of the Hollerith tabulating machine in the 1890s through the 1970s.
Description
This portable key punch for preparing punched cards was manufactured by the Massachusetts firm of Wright Line. Punched cards were central to large-scale data processing in the United States from the introduction of the Hollerith tabulating machine in the 1890s through the 1970s. Tabulating machine manufacturers such as IBM and Remington Rand (later Sperry Univac) rented card punches. Wright Line, founded in 1934, was one of relatively few independent data processing accessory manufacturers. It made and sold a large variety of files, magnetic tapes, card punches, and related machines.
The device is designed for 80-column punch cards such as those made for IBM computers. It has a metal base painted black with 12 number keys and an "S" key. These keys, with their white key tops, are attached to a moveable carriage. A single punch card fits in the carriage. A mark on the top reads: Wright (/) PUNCH (/) MODEL 2600.
This punch came to the Smithsonian from the United States Naval Observatory, a longtime user of tabulating equipment for scientific purposes.
References:
Accession file.
"E. Stanley Wright, Manufacturer, 66," New York Times, September 8, 1959, p. 35.
Wright Line, Data Processing Accessories Catalog ’69, p. 38.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
ca 1970
maker
Wright Line
ID Number
2005.0174.01
accession number
2005.0174
catalog number
2005.0174.01

Remington Rand Univac Minimum Latency Calculator Slide Rule

This circular device was an aid to programming the UNIVAC solid state computer. It consists of a paper disc, with equal divisions running from 1 to 200 near the edge, and a clear plastic rotating disc. These are pivoted together at the center.
Description
This circular device was an aid to programming the UNIVAC solid state computer. It consists of a paper disc, with equal divisions running from 1 to 200 near the edge, and a clear plastic rotating disc. These are pivoted together at the center. The upper disc is marked in red with two perpendicular diameters. The lower disc is marked: MINIMUM LATENCY CALCULATOR FOR THE UNIVAC SOLID-STATE COMPUTER. The UNIVAC had a magnetic storage drum on which locations were specified numerically. The latency calculator allowed programmers to write code for the machine to make the most efficient possible use of the drum memory.
The back of the instrument gives a list of instruction codes and corresponding execution times for words. It is marked: Remington Rand Univac. It is also marked: U1767 Rev. 1 PRINTED (/) IN (/) U.S.A. The rule was received in a paper bag.
Reference: Sperry Rand Corporation, Simple Transition to Electronic Processing, UNIVAC Solid-State 80, (1960), 18–26.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
after 1950
maker
Remington Rand Univac
ID Number
2005.0271.01
accession number
2005.0271
catalog number
2005.0271.01

IBM C66908 Punch Cards for Girl Scouts of the U.S.A.

Both of these cream-colored eighty-column punch cards have a green stripe across the top. The cards have rounded corners and are truncated in the left corner. The columns are labeled for a variety of accounting entries. A mark on the bottom edge near the left reads: IBM C66908.
Description
Both of these cream-colored eighty-column punch cards have a green stripe across the top. The cards have rounded corners and are truncated in the left corner. The columns are labeled for a variety of accounting entries. A mark on the bottom edge near the left reads: IBM C66908. A mark on the right edge reads: GIRL SCOUTS OF THE U.S.A. A mark on the left edge reads: ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE - CARD FILE.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1960s-1970s
user
Girl Scouts of the U.S.A.
maker
IBM
ID Number
1996.0142.12
catalog number
1996.0142.12
accession number
1996.0142

Equal Bytes for Women

This button is part of a set of materials (much of it advertising ephemera) relating to computing donated to the Smithsonian for possible use its Information Age exhibition.
Description
This button is part of a set of materials (much of it advertising ephemera) relating to computing donated to the Smithsonian for possible use its Information Age exhibition. The red button reads: Equal Bytes For Women" and "Computerworld."
In 1979, the trade publication Computerworld held its first annual button contest. According to its January 28 1980 issue, one of the six winning slogans was "Equal Bytes for Women," submitted by one C. Barnard of Medicus Systems in Chicago, Illinois. Hence the rough date assigned to the object.
Reference:
Tom Hankel, "Button Contest Finds TV, Sex on DPers' Minds," Computerworld, vol. 14 issue 4, January 28, 1980, p. 12.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1980
maker
Computerworld
ID Number
1990.0407.04
catalog number
1990.0407.04
accession number
1990.0407

Nanoseconds Associated with Grace Hopper

This bundle consists of about one hundred pieces of plastic-coated wire, each about 30 cm (11.8 in) long. Each piece of wire represents the distance an electrical signal travels in a nanosecond, one billionth of a second.
Description
This bundle consists of about one hundred pieces of plastic-coated wire, each about 30 cm (11.8 in) long. Each piece of wire represents the distance an electrical signal travels in a nanosecond, one billionth of a second. Grace Murray Hopper (1906–1992), a mathematician who became a naval officer and computer scientist during World War II, started distributing these wire "nanoseconds" in the late 1960s in order to demonstrate how designing smaller components would produce faster computers.
The "nanoseconds" in this bundle were among those Hopper brought with her to hand out to Smithsonian docents at a March 1985 lecture at NMAH. Later, as components shrank and computer speeds increased, Hopper used grains of pepper to represent the distance electricity traveled in a picosecond, one trillionth of a second (one thousandth of a nanosecond).
Reference: Kathleen Broome Williams, Grace Hopper: Admiral of the Cyber Sea, Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2004.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1985
distributor
Hopper, Grace Murray
ID Number
1985.3088.01
catalog number
1985.3088.01
nonaccession number
1985.3088

ICL New Zealand 4-354 Punch Cards

These cream-colored eighty-column punch cards have square corners. They are truncated in the upper right corner. A mark at the bottom edge on the left reads: ICL 4-354. A mark near that edge at the center reads: INTERNATIONAL COMPUTERS (NEW ZEALAND) LIMITED.
Description
These cream-colored eighty-column punch cards have square corners. They are truncated in the upper right corner. A mark at the bottom edge on the left reads: ICL 4-354. A mark near that edge at the center reads: INTERNATIONAL COMPUTERS (NEW ZEALAND) LIMITED. An adjacent mark reads: PRINTED IN NEW ZEALAND.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1960s-1970s
maker
International Computers Ltd
ID Number
1996.0142.19
catalog number
1996.0142.19
accession number
1996.0142

NMAH Web Site Documentation Binder

This white loose-leaf binder contains information about the design, configuration and installation of the files and servers needed to power the redesigned National Museum of American History website (americanhistory.si.edu).
Description
This white loose-leaf binder contains information about the design, configuration and installation of the files and servers needed to power the redesigned National Museum of American History website (americanhistory.si.edu). Included is information on how the page appearance was constructed using ColdFusion custom tags and an example of how each page would look. In addition to 185 pages of text, it includes 2 cd-rom disks entitled "Web Site Phase I Final File Set".
The NMAH website was created by Mediatrope Interactive Studio of San Francisco, CA.
The entire Smithsonian website is preserved by the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
2005
2005-04
ID Number
2017.3148.01
nonaccession number
2017.3148
catalog number
2017.3148.01

LOCI-2 Punch Card

This is one of a series of forty-column perforated punch cards designed for use with the programmable Wang LOCI-2 electronic calculator. Each card is marked in the bottom left corner: IBM D56709.
Description
This is one of a series of forty-column perforated punch cards designed for use with the programmable Wang LOCI-2 electronic calculator. Each card is marked in the bottom left corner: IBM D56709. Each card is marked on the left side: LOCI (LOGARITHMIC COMPUTER) PROGRAM.
For the calculator, see 1980.0096.01. For the card reader, see 1980.0096.01.1. For the card punch, see1980.0096.02.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1965 or later
maker
IBM
ID Number
1980.0096.03.5
catalog number
1980.0096.03.5
accession number
1980.0096

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