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Object Name |
Template, Drafting |
Object Number |
2020.033.082a-b |
Description |
Drafting Template Thin blue-green plastic template with twenty-six cutouts of various shapes with an underlying grid of black lines; rectangular; horizontally orientated; each of the cutouts is labeled with black text; along the top edge is a scale of inches divided to tenths of inches; along the bottom edge is a scale of inches divided to eighths of inches; along the left vertical edge is a scale of centimeters from zero to nine; black printed text on the bottom right corner reads: "FLOWCHARTING TEMPLATE/ GX20-8020-1 U/M 010/ Printed in U.S.A./ IBM." Double-sided blue and white paper sleeve explains the symbols used on the template; small thumbnail on the front side; white text on the bottom blue border of the backside reads: "Printed in U.S.A." a) template b) sleeve |
Provenance |
Drafting template used by employees at the Fraser Valley Regional District [FVRD]. This drafting template is a flowcharting template, made by the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) in the United States. This template conforms to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) International Standard 1028 - "InformationProcessing - Flowchart Symbols," and the American National Standard "Flowchart Symbols and Their Usage in Information Processing X3.5-1970." Drafting templates are stencils that allow the user to draw specific symbols and shapes that are repeatedly used in a design. By tracing around the holes, the user can quickly and accurately draw the shape required. This template has three types of symbols: basic symbols; processing and sequencing symbols related to programming; and, input/output, communication link, and processing symbols related to systems. IBM is an American technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York with operations in over 171 countries. The company was incorporated in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) by Charles Ranlett Flint and specialized in producing punch-card tabulators. The company assumed its present name in 1924 under the leadership of Thomas Watson (https://www.britannica.com/topic/International-Business-Machines-Corporation). IBM produces and sells computer hardware, middleware and software, and provides hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology (https://www.ibm.com/products?lnk=hpmps_buall&lnk2=link). Inventions by IBM include the automated teller machine (ATM), the floppy disk, the hard disk drive, the magnetic stripe card, the relational database, the SQL programming language, the UPC barcode, and dynamic random-access memory (DRAM). The IBM mainframe, exemplified by the System/360, was the dominant computing platform during the 1960s and 1970s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM). The Fraser Valley Regional District (1995 - present) is a local government that delivers over 100 separate services to over 280,000 residents in the Fraser Valley. Services include: fire protection, sewer, water, storm drainage, building inspection, bylaw enforcement, planning, and zoning and development. Communities include eight unincorporated Electoral Areas as well as the municipalities of: Abbotsford, Chilliwack, Harrison Hot Springs, Hope, Kent, and Mission. The headquarters is based in Chilliwack at the intersection of Cheam Avenue and Young Road. Employees in the Engineering and the Planning and Development departments, particularly surveyors, drafters, and GIS technicians, likely used templates such as this in their work. |
Date |
[197-] |