CDC 88157 Punch Card
CDC 88157 Punch Card
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- Description
- This eighty-column paper punch card is cream-colored. It has square corners and the top left corner is truncated. A mark at the top of the card reads: FORTRAN STATEMENT. A mark on the bottom toward the left reads: CDC 88157. Both Control Data Corporation and IBM issued cards with the number 88157 specifically for entering programs in the language FORTRAN. The first five columns on the card were a label field, the sixth a continuation field (e.g. if the column was not blank or a zero, the problem statement was assumed to be continued on the next card) , and columns 7 through 72 gave that problem statement).
- The programming language FORTRAN was introduced by IBM in 1956 and 1957, and proved popular in the 1960s. Hence the rough date assigned to the card.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Punch Card
- date made
- 1960s
- maker
- Control Data
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall:.1 cm x 19 cm x 8.4 cm; 1/32 in x 7 15/32 in x 3 5/16 in
- ID Number
- 1996.0142.02
- catalog number
- 1996.0142.02
- accession number
- 1996.0142
- Credit Line
- Gift of Douglas W. Jones
- subject
- Mathematics
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- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Computers & Business Machines
- Punch Cards
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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