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Card reader at DRG
Title DRG Card reader
Collection Division of Research Grants
Caption Card reader at DRG
Description The Division of Research Grants (now the Center for Scientific Review) utilized early computer card reader technology from data input on magnetic tape. The use of these early computers provided biostatistical analysis. In 1954 A central data-processing facility was established in the NIH Office of the Director under Dr. Harold Dorn, combining EAM (punched card) equipment and biometric expertise.
Credit line Courtesy of the Office of History, National Institutes of Health
Accession number 5786
Number of images 1
Catalog Number 4080
Photographer Robert S. Pumphrey
Place Bethesda, MD
Year Range from 1950
Year Range to 1960
Organizations NIH; OD, OER, Division of Research Grants (1946-1997)
Other number 4080