Object Details
- 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. These cards have some of the data for one of these programs. The cards are white with a pink border on the top (occasional cards have a green border). Groups of cards are not numbered but groups of data are designated by black marks on the edge. A mark on the first card reads: 3000 500. A printout of a related program has non-accession number 1990.3046.10.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- IBM
- date made
- 1968
- Credit Line
- Gift of Paul Baran and W. L. Doyle
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 8.3 cm x 18.8 cm x 3.1 cm; 3 1/4 in x 7 3/8 in x 1 1/4 in
- Object Name
- punched cards, set of
