IBM 827213 Punch Cards for the Electronic Computer Project at Princeton University
IBM 827213 Punch Cards for the Electronic Computer Project at Princeton University
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- Description
- Two IBM 80-column punch cards, tan. One card has nothing written on the front but the back has a drawing of a circuit, the date FEB 13 1958, and the words Bias Supplies; Wm Pulser; Arithmetic. The second card has a 5 column, 2 row table drawn in pencil on the front and circuit drawings in pencil on the back.
- These two cards were made by IBM for the Electronic Computer Project at Princeton, NJ. This project made the IAS computer, considered by some to be the first American computer (it had stored programs, which the ENIAC did not). These cards may represent the first punch cards used with an American electronic computer.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- punch cards, group of
- date made
- ca 1955
- ca 1955
- maker
- IBM
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 8.3 cm x 18.8 cm; 3 9/32 in x 7 13/32 in
- ID Number
- CI.320250.05
- accession number
- 1958.220575
- catalog number
- 320250.05
- Credit Line
- Gift of Princeton University
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Computers & Business Machines
- Punch Cards
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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