IBM 001Card Punch
date: label: date made
content: after 1930
name: label: maker
content: International Business Machines Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: For the first half of the 20th century, much data was entered into data processing machines using punched cards. This machine for punching such cards was manufactured by International Business Machines Corporation of New York.
label: Description
content: This key-driven, manual punch has 14 black keys. Twelve are for the 12 rows on a punch card. These are labeled from 0 to 9, X, and blank. Another key moves the card one space to the left and the last releases it. Keys are fed in from the right. A portion of a punch card attached in back of the machine has a pointer attached to it which allows one to determine the column of the card one is punching. The device is set up for 80-column cards and punches rectangular holes. A cylindrical protrusion extends from the back of the machine.
label: Description
content: A metal tag attached to the front of the object reads: PROPERTY OF (/) INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP. (/) 001-12036-JH (/) ENDICOTT, NEW YORK, U.S.A. A mark stamped into the back of the card bed reads: 01 202.Two rods are marked at the front below the punching position: 202.
label: Description
content: IBM cards with rectangular holes and 80 columns were introduced in 1928. Cards with 12 rows of holes date from the early 1930s.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: E. W. Pugh, <I>Building IBM: Shaping an Industry and Its Technology</I>, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995, pp. 48–49.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Endicott
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: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.333894
label: accession number
content: 304350
label: catalog number
content: 333894
objectType: label: Object Name
content: card punch
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11.8 cm x 43.7 cm x 18 cm; 4 21/32 in x 17 7/32 in x 7 3/32 in