IBM UK 866 Rutherford Laboratory Central Computer System
IBM UK 866 Rutherford Laboratory Central Computer System
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- Description
- These two blue eighty-column punch cards have four square corners (none truncated). They are job statement cards for the Rutherford Central Computer System 195. The cards have space for information about a job name, job number, user's identity code, programmer's name, and job parameters.
- Established in 1958, the Rutherford HIgh Energy Laboratory of Britain's National Institute for Research in Nuclear Science was a center for computing in Britain. It installed one IBM 360/195 mainframe computer in 1971, and a second in 1976. These computers ran until 1982.
- A mark on the cards at the top right reads: SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL. A mark on the bottom edge reads: IBM UNITED KINGDOM LIMITED. Another mark there reads: 866-23042.
- Reference:
- See www.chilton-computing.org.uk/ca/technology/s360_195/p007.htm.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Punch Cards, Group Of
- date made
- 1971-1982
- maker
- IBM
- 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
- 1996.0142.31
- catalog number
- 1996.0142.31
- 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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