Punch Card Probe
date: label: date made
content: ca 1950
label: date made
content: 1950, roughly
notes: label: Description
content: This cylindrical metal stainless steel rod is about 8" long and resembles a crochet hook. The metal is serrated along the middle part of the rod. One end is hooked, the other is flattened and U-shaped. The donor worked with tabulating machines and then computer equipment from the 1940s into at least the 1960s.
label: Description
content: Reportedly the hook was used to line up punched cards and the flattened end to complete holes that had not punched properly.
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
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content: Punch Cards
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Benjamin S. Mulitz
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.3088.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 2006.3088
label: catalog number
content: 2006.3088.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: punch card probe
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: stainless steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .2 cm x 20.3 cm x .2 cm; 3/32 in x 8 in x 3/32 in