Object Details
maker
IBM
Description
In the mid-1960s, the Computer Science Department at RAND Corporation turned its attention to developing computer graphics. A set of programs written in the programming language FORTRAN for the PDP-9 minicomputer were used to plot contour lines useful in determining the line of sight for microwave radiation emitted from a given point on a map.
Groups of the punch cards are not numbered but some are grouped by black marks on the edge. The cards have the data for a FORTRAN program with non-accession number 1990.3046.10. The cards are white with a pink, green or no border on the top. A mark on the first card reads: 8258, CLAF6, D7300, 04M, 100CD, 150P, C.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Gift of Paul Baran and W. L. Doyle
date made
1968
ID Number
1990.3046.06
catalog number
1990.3046.06
nonaccession number
1990.3046
Object Name
punched cards, set of
Physical Description
paper (overall material)
Measurements
overall: 8.3 cm x 18.8 cm x 8.1 cm; 3 1/4 in x 7 3/8 in x 3 3/16 in
Place Made
United States: California, Santa Monica
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Medicine and Science: Computers
Computers & Business Machines
Punch Cards
Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Mathematics
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_1378547