Drawer for Storing Punch Cards
date: label: date made
content: 1970s
notes: label: Description
content: From the 1890s, punched paper cards were used to store data for tabulating machines and then, from the 1950s, for electronic computers. This metal drawer was used in the 1970s to transport computer punch cards at the Smithsonian Institution, and was received from the Computer Services Center of the National Museum of American History. It is marked at the back: TAB PRODUCTS CO. The firm TAB Products Company was founded in Deleware in 1954 by two former IBM salesmen. It sold a variety of file boxes and containers for offices using computers, and then moved on to other products.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.3098.119
label: catalog number
content: 2012.3098.119
label: nonaccession number
content: 2012.3098
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawer, metal
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 5/8 in x 7 9/16 in x 16 in; 11.7475 cm x 19.20875 cm x 40.64 cm