Object Details
- IBM
- Description
- This white paper punch card demonstrates how an average hourly rate of pay can be calculated for a worker paid partly on piece work and partly on day work, receiving a bonus. It was intended as advertising for the IBM 602A calculating punch.
- The left half of the card has text describing the product. It reads in part: ARITHMETIC (/) CALCULATIONS ARE PERFORMED IN (/) ONE OPERATION BY THE NEW (/)TYPE 602A CALCULATING PUNCH. The right side has columns of holes to be punched that are numbered from 37 to 80.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Milton Schwartzbart
- ca 1948
- ID Number
- 1995.3080.01
- nonaccession number
- 1995.3080
- catalog number
- 1995.3080.01
- Object Name
- punch card
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: .1 cm x 18.7 cm x 8.1 cm; 1/32 in x 7 3/8 in x 3 3/16 in
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Computers & Business Machines
- Science & Mathematics
- Punch Cards
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_690155
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-0cd1-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
