This is so beatiful, it is the front cover of the manual for The Fortran Automatic Coding System for the IBM 704, 1956. The typeface is Clarendon.
IBM’s corporate identity was designed by Paul Rand
August 3, 2011
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Fortran is still in use as a programming language for supercomputing, the oldest language in common use.
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