Punched Card Checking Device
date: label: date made
content: ca 1960
notes: label: Description
content: This fairly short skewer-shaped device was used to check that punched cards lined up to be fed into a a computer.
label: Description
content: The donor spent her career as a computer programmer and then worked as a volunteer in the NMAH computer collections.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Joan P. Nichols
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.3009.02
label: nonaccession number
content: 1997.3009
label: catalog number
content: 1997.3009.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mainframe Component
label: Object Name
content: Component
label: Object Name
content: mainframe computer component
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16.5 cm x .2 cm x .6 cm; 6 1/2 in x 3/32 in x 1/4 in