Wright Model 2000 Card Punch
date: label: date made
content: ca 1970
name: label: maker
content: Wright Line
notes: label: Description
content: This portable key punch for preparing punched cards was manufactured by the Massachusetts firm of Wright Line. Punched cards were central to large-scale data processing in the United States from the introduction of the Hollerith tabulating machine in the 1890s through the 1970s. Tabulating machine manufacturers such as IBM and Remington Rand (later Sperry Univac) rented card punches. Wright Line, founded in 1934, was one of relatively few independent data processing accessory manufacturers. It made and sold a large variety of files, magnetic tapes, card punches, and related machines.
label: Description
content: The device is designed for 80-column punch cards such as those made for IBM computers. It has a metal base painted black with 12 number keys and an "S" key. These keys, with their white key tops, are attached to a moveable carriage. A single punch card fits in the carriage. A mark on the top reads: Wright (/) PUNCH (/) MODEL 2600.
label: Description
content: This punch came to the Smithsonian from the United States Naval Observatory, a longtime user of tabulating equipment for scientific purposes.
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content: References:
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content: Accession file.
label: Description
content: "E. Stanley Wright, Manufacturer, 66," <I>New York Times</I>, September 8, 1959, p. 35.
label: Description
content: Wright Line, <I>Data Processing Accessories Catalog ’69</I>, p. 38.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
topic: label: web subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Astronomy
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: Tabulating Equipment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from United States Naval Observatory
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0174.01
label: accession number
content: 2005.0174
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0174.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: card punch
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
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content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10.8 cm x 46 cm x 14 cm; 4 1/4 in x 18 1/8 in x 5 1/2 in