Object Details
- IBM
- IBM
- Description
- IBM sometimes used punch cards to advertise punch card systems. This is one such punch card, used to advertise tabulating machines. Text on the card reads in part: What the Punched Hole will do. (/) The IBM card demonstrates the first step (/) in IBM accounting. The three leftmost columns indicate how the digits 005 would be entered using slanting, oval-shaped holes. Three columns next to this indicate how the digits 005 would be entered in an 80-column card with rectangular holes such as IBM had introduced in the 1920s. The center of the card described what the card would do. The right side indicates data from a payroll calculation printed on an 80-column card.
- Test along the left edge of the card reads: IBM 792040-MS 0. It also reads: IBM 148331. Text along the right edge reads: REPRESENTATIVE COMPANY.
- The back of the card shows an IBM "punch register", a sorter, and an accounting machine, which "PREPARES THE REQUIRED REPORTS FROM THE PUNCHED AND SORTED CARDS."
- For another example of the card, see 1988.0803.01.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of I. Bernard Cohen
- 1930s
- ID Number
- 1988.0803.02
- catalog number
- 1988.0803.02
- accession number
- 1988.0803
- Object Name
- punch card
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 7 3/8 in x 3 1/4 in; 18.7325 cm x 8.255 cm
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Tabulating Equipment
- Science & Mathematics
- Punch Cards
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_764873
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-af0b-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
