Complex sentence: The IBM 046 Tape-to-Card Punch and IBM 047 Tape-to-Card Printing Punch (almost identical, with the exception of the printing mechanism) read data from punched paper tape and punched that data into punched cards.
Split into simpler sentences: The IBM 046 Tape-to-Card Punch and IBM 047 Tape-to-Card Printing Punch were almost identical, with the exception of the printing mechanism. These machines read data from punched paper tape and punched that data into punched cards.