IBM Port-a-Punch Card Punch
date: label: date made
content: 1960s
name: label: maker
content: IBM
notes: label: Description
content: From 1958, IBM Corporation sold portable, stylus-operated card punches like this one to prepare the cards used in data processing equipment.
label: Description
content: The tan instrument consists of a plastic frame that holds 13 long plastic rectangles along its length. A transparent plastic template which has an array of evenly spaced holes fits over the rectangles, and cards are placed over this. A plastic stylus with a metal point punches holes. The object and a card with instructions fit in a cardboard box. A mark on the punch reads: IBM PORT-A-PUNCH. A mark on the end of the box reads: International Business Machines Corporation [/] Part No. 456861.
label: Description
content: Card 1990.0113.04 (an IBM D10687 punch card) was designed for use with this card punch.
label: Description
content: The materials in this accession were used to reduce data accumulated in Robert A. McConnell’s research on parapsychology.
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content: References:
label: Description
content: Accession file.
label: Description
content: Web site of the IBM Archives, accessed October 16, 2012.
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: Science & Mathematics
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: 1990.0113.02
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0113.02
label: accession number
content: 1990.0113
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tabulating equipment
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.6 cm x 23 cm x 12.3 cm; 5/8 in x 9 1/16 in x 4 27/32 in