Punch Cards Used as an Advertisement, IBM 148331
date: label: Date made
content: 1930s
name: label: maker
content: IBM
label: maker
content: IBM
notes: label: Description
content: IBM sometimes used punch cards to advertise punch card systems. This is one such punch card, used to advertise tabulating machines. Text on the card reads in part: What the Punched Hole will do. (/) The IBM card demonstrates the first step (/) in IBM accounting. The three leftmost columns indicate how the digits 005 would be entered using slanting, oval-shaped holes. Three columns next to this indicate how the digits 005 would be entered in an 80-column card with rectangular holes such as IBM had introduced in the 1920s. The center of the card described what the card would do. The right side indicates data from a payroll calculation printed on an 80-column card.
label: Description
content: Test along the left edge of the card reads: IBM 792040-MS 0. It also reads: IBM 148331. Text along the right edge reads: REPRESENTATIVE COMPANY.
label: Description
content: The back of the card shows an IBM "punch register", a sorter, and an accounting machine, which "PREPARES THE REQUIRED REPORTS FROM THE PUNCHED AND SORTED CARDS."
label: Description
content: For another example of the card, see 1988.0803.01.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Tabulating Equipment
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Punch Cards
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of I. Bernard Cohen
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0803.02
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0803.02
label: accession number
content: 1988.0803
objectType: label: Object Name
content: punch card
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 3/8 in x 3 1/4 in; 18.7325 cm x 8.255 cm