Object Details
- Conference on Data Systems Languages. Language Subcommittee of the Short-Range Committee
- Description
- During 1959 the first plans for the computer language COBOL emerged as a result of meetings of several committees and subcommittees of programmers from American business and government. This heavily annotated typescript was prepared during a special meeting of the language subcommittee of the Short-Range Committee held in New York City in November. COBOL programs would actually run the following summer, and the same program was successfully tested on computers of two different manufacturers in December 1960.
- Reference: Jean E. Sammet, "The Early History of COBOL," History of Programming Languages, ed. Richard L. Wexelblat, New York: Academic Press, 1981, 199-277.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Courtesy of Howard Bromberg
- 1959
- ID Number
- 2010.3050.4
- catalog number
- 2010.3050.4
- nonaccession number
- 2010.3050
- Object Name
- documentation
- Physical Description
- plastic (container material)
- metal (container material)
- paper (inside material)
- Measurements
- overall: 12 in x 10 in x 1 3/4 in; 30.48 cm x 25.4 cm x 4.445 cm
- Place Made
- United States: New York, New York City
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Computers & Business Machines
- COBOL
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1389377
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-2a1f-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
