IBM Model 24 Card Punch
date: label: date made
content: ca 1965
name: label: maker
content: International Business Machines Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This gray desk-sized machine for punching cards to be used as computer input has a table with keyboard at the front and a card hopper, card bed, and card stack at the back. The keyboard is cabled to the punch. Cards move from the hopper at the top left, down into the card bed, across the bed to the left, and up into the stack on the left side. It is possible to punch individual cards and to have several cards programmed to be punched identically in some columns. The model IBM 24 does not print data entered at the top of the card.
label: Description
content: A mark on the punch reads: IBM 24 (/) CARD PUNCH. Another mark there reads: PROPERTY OF (/) INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP. (/) 024 30864 SO.
label: Description
content: References:
label: Description
content: IBM, <I>Reference Manual IBM 24 Card Punch IBM 26 Printing Card Punch</I>, White Plains, N.Y.: IBM, 1965. The first version of this manual appeared in 1949.
label: Description
content: IBM, <I>Field Engineering Maintenance Manual 24-Base Machines</I>, White Plains, N.Y.: IBM, 1965. This manual has museum number 1987.0528.03 and was received with the machine.
label: Description
content: John Diebold & Associates, "IBM 024 and 026 Card Punches," <I>Automatic Data Processing Equipment</I>, Chicago: Cudahy Publishing Company, 1957, section 1A 380.1, pages 2–6.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Mathematics
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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: Gift of Eric J. Horne
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0528.01
label: accession number
content: 1987.0528
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0528.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: card punch
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (table, mechanism material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (cord material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (keys material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 97 cm x 78.5 cm x 72.5 cm; 38 3/16 in x 30 29/32 in x 28 17/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 44 in x 32 in x 31 in; 111.76 cm x 81.28 cm x 78.74 cm