IBM 20-5884-3 Flowcharting Template
IBM 20-5884-3 Flowcharting Template
- Description
- Flow charts could describe accounting machines as well as computers. This clear plastic rule is colored white around the edges. It has a grid of lines drawn in the background, with twelve symbols cut out. Across the top is a scale for 402-403 type bar spacing. Across the bottom are scales of mark sensing and card column numbers. Along the left is a scale of line spaces. Along the right is a scale of punching positions. The IBM 402 and IBM 403 were IBM accounting machines that sold from the late 1940s into the mid-1960s.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Logic Template
- date made
- ca 1960
- maker
- IBM
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall:.1 cm x 19.2 cm x 8.4 cm; 1/32 in x 7 9/16 in x 3 5/16 in
- ID Number
- 1996.3015.04
- catalog number
- 1996.3015.04
- nonaccession number
- 1996.3015
- Credit Line
- Gift of Joan P. Nichols
- subject
- Mathematics
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- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Flowcharting Templates
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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