REM Card Game: Museum Object and Cultural History
REM Card Game: date made: ca 1984. Object Name: Game. Measurements: box: 5 7/8 in x 3 5/8 in x 7/8 in; 14.9225 cm x 9.2075 cm x 2.2225 cm.
The object in the museum catalogue
"REM, A Card Game for the Computer Age" contains forty-nine plastic coated playing cards and playing instructions in an orange cardboard box. The instructions are printed on similar "playing" cards. This set is missing the paper scoring pad (in the form of "miniature computer paper" listed on the box as part of the contents. The game is designed to teach seventeen commonly used terms and can be played by two to six players, children and adults.
The game was designed by Carlton Dale Reinhard of Hamilton, Indiana, with the term REM and the icon of a computer disc trademarked by him in the U.S. in 1984. The game was particularly intended to provide a rough introduction to the BASIC programming language.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: ca 1984
- Object Name: Game
- Measurements: box: 5 7/8 in x 3 5/8 in x 7/8 in; 14.9225 cm x 9.2075 cm x 2.2225 cm
- ID Number: 1988.0328.01
- accession number: 1988.0328
- catalog number: 1988.0328.01
- Credit Line: Martin Campbell-Kelly
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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