IBM 805 Test Scoring Machine
The IBM 805 Test Scoring Machine was an educational machine sold by IBM beginning in 1937.{{Cite web|date=2012-03-07|title=IBM100 - Automated Test Scoring|url=http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/testscore/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120403020015/http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/testscore/|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 3, 2012|access-date=2021-11-27|website=www-03.ibm.com|language=en-US}} The device scored answer sheets marked with special "mark sense" pencils. The machine was developed from a prototype developed by Reynold Johnson, a school teacher who later became an IBM engineer. That machine and its descendants have been in use ever since.
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- "Bulletin of Information on the International Test Scoring Machine." (New York: Cooperative Test Service, 1936)
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20041216110759/http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/index.html IBM Archives] web page on the [https://web.archive.org/web/20050114203125/http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/specialprod1/specialprod1_9.html 805 Test Scoring Machine]
Category:IBM educational computers
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