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Fragment 25 of 72 · drawer 03

Shared machine submission ticket

A reconstructed claim ticket for computing encountered as a service desk, a queue, and a later collection.

Accession
MW-F-025
Representative period
Representative institutional form, 1960s
Drawer
Queue paper
Certainty
interpretive
MUSEUM OF WAITING / RECONSTRUCTED RECORD MW-F-025

Shared machine submission ticket

Representative institutional form, 1960s

Observed surface

RECEIPT 0472 / submitted 16:42 / estimated return: following morning

Deck count: 286 cards / output: printed listing

Priority: ordinary / resubmission: no

Implied procedure

The ticket proves custody, not execution.

Between counter and processor the job can be classified, held, read, rejected, printed, and sorted without the submitter present.

Interpretive residue

A claim number replaces interaction. To ask how the work is going would require locating the work inside the institution.

The promised morning is a social estimate rather than a processor estimate.

INTERPRETIVE COPY DO NOT CITE AS A HISTORICAL ARTEFACT

Accountability record

Evidence beneath the reconstruction.

These institutional sources support the mechanism or historical practice interpreted above. They do not contain this reconstructed record, its wording, or its invented values.

  1. IBM History · 2024 The IBM 650 Describes the operational shift from overnight card batches toward more continuous data processing. Open institutional record ↗
  2. MIT Computation Center · 1962 An Experimental Time-Sharing System Corbató, Daggett and Daley contrast interactive time-sharing with batch-monitor feedback loops in which correcting one program error could require hours or a full day. Open institutional record ↗