Tape to Card Converter, Type 308-56, for Use with a Remington Rand Model 3 Tabulating Machine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1955
name: label: maker
content: Remington Rand
notes: label: Description
content: This desk-sized machine punched cards for input into a tabulating machine from information encoded on paper tape. It was part of a Remington Rand Model 3 accounting system, and was sold under the designation of a tape to card converter.
label: Description
content: The device includes two tape control units. Each one of these has dimensions: 22.5 cm. w. x 63 cm. d. x 23 cm. h. They are gray metal boxes with one reel for tape at the front and a protruding tape holder at the back. They sat on the left side of the machine. Both reels and holders may be removed. There are four buttons in the front of these devices. It seems likely that one was for five-channel paper tape and the other for 6-channel paper tape. The card feeder is at the center. An array of keys makes it possible to use the device as an ordinary punch.
label: Description
content: References:
label: Description
content: John Diebold & Associates, "Remington Rand Type 308-5 Tape-to-Card Converter," <I>Automatic Data Processing Equipment</I>, Chicago: Cudahy Publishing Company, 1957, section 3A 660.2, pp. 1–5.
label: Description
content: Remington Rand Univac, <I>Introduction to UNIVAC Punched-Card Data Processing</I>, no date, no place, p. 35.
label: Description
content: Remington Rand Univac Division of Sperry Rand Corporation, <I>Remington Rand Common-Language Data Processing</I>, New York: Remington Rand Univac, no date. This is 1977.3012.04.27.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Mathematics
label: web subject
content: Labor Unions
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Tabulating Equipment
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.336297
label: accession number
content: 305981
label: catalog number
content: 336297
objectType: label: Object Name
content: card punch
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 103 cm x 76.5 cm x 72 cm; 40 9/16 in x 30 1/8 in x 28 11/32 in