RCA Electronic Data Processing Flowcharting Template

This clear plastic flowcharting template has a grid of lines marked on it., with some line segments darkened to assist in aligning the symbols on a flowchart. Many of the twenty-six symbols are labeled. A scale of printer spacing runs from 0 to 90 across the top and a scale of card volume runs from 0 to 450 on the left. The white paper envelope holding the template explains many of the symbols. A mark on the bottom right reads: ELECTRONIC DATA PROCESSING RCA (/) 28-00-108. A reference mentioned on envelope is: RCA EDP Manual, Flow Charting Standards for Information Processing, 97-05-001.

RCA sold computers from 1958 until 1971. It had embraced the flow chart [sic] as a tool of industrial design by 1960.

Reference:

RCA Engineer, vol. 6, #4, December 1960-January 1961. This issue of the magazine includes several flow charts.

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