IBM Punch Card Gauge
date: label: date made
content: 1960s
name: label: maker
content: IBM
notes: label: Description
content: This gray metal instrument checked the "registration" or alignment of a card punch. Its surface is marked and numbered like an IBM punch card, with 80 columns of numbers. A sample punched card, held in place by three protrusions, fit over the surface and was compared to the rectangles below. Machines out of registration could then be reported.
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content: A mark on the bottom reads: MFG. BY I.B.M. Another mark there reads: GAUGE CARD FACE UP.
label: Description
content: The device fits in a brown cardboard envelope that is covered with cellophane. A mark on the envelope reads: 450550.
label: Description
content: This is a gauge for an IBM 5081 punch card and a related card punch. It was used at the University of Pittsburgh in Professor Robert A. McConnell’s research on parapsychology.
label: Description
content: For a related card, see 1990.0113.03.
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content: Reference:
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content: Accession File.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Psychology
label: web subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Tabulating Equipment
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Punch Cards
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Robert A. McConnell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0113.01
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0113.01
label: accession number
content: 1990.0113
objectType: label: Object Name
content: punch card gauge
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cellophane (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .6 cm x 22.4 cm x 11.3 cm; 1/4 in x 8 13/16 in x 4 7/16 in