First Draft of the Progamming Language COBOL
- Description
- During 1959 the first plans for the computer language COBOL emerged as a result of meetings of several committees and subcommittees of programmers from American business and government. This heavily annotated typescript was prepared during a special meeting of the language subcommittee of the Short-Range Committee held in New York City in November. COBOL programs would actually run the following summer, and the same program was successfully tested on computers of two different manufacturers in December 1960.
- Reference: Jean E. Sammet, "The Early History of COBOL," History of Programming Languages, ed. Richard L. Wexelblat, New York: Academic Press, 1981, 199-277.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- documentation
- date made
- 1959
- maker
- Conference on Data Systems Languages. Language Subcommittee of the Short-Range Committee
- Physical Description
- plastic (container material)
- metal (container material)
- paper (inside material)
- Measurements
- overall: 12 in x 10 in x 1 3/4 in; 30.48 cm x 25.4 cm x 4.445 cm
- Place Made
- United States: New York, New York
- ID Number
- 2010.3050.4
- catalog number
- 2010.3050.4
- nonaccession number
- 2010.3050
- subject
- COBOL
- Computers & Business Machines
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Computers
- COBOL
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
- Credit Line
- Courtesy of Howard Bromberg
- Additional Media
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