Remington Rand Type 315-1Collating Reproducer, for Use with a Remington Rand Model 3 Tabulating Machine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1955
name: label: maker
content: Remington Rand
notes: label: Description
content: This punched card machine, called a collating reproducer, mechanically feeds and reads punched cards from two hoppers for determining whether one card is greater than, equal to, or less than the other. It combined two sets of cards in numerical order. If the sequence control is turned off, it can be used to reproduce a set of cards. One card hopper is at the top front, the other at the middle front. Segregated cards went into receivers at the back.
label: Description
content: A mark on a tag attached to the machine reads: Model 3 Type 315-1. A mark on a second card reads: A.F.L.-C.I.O (/) HEADQUARTERS (/) 39.
label: Description
content: According to Diebold, this device sold for $12,000 in 1956, and rented for $150 monthly.
label: Description
content: This machine is part of a system owned by the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, an important American labor union formed by the merger of the A.F.L. and the C.I.O. in 1955.
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content: Reference:
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content: John Diebold & Associates, "Remington Rand Type 315-1 Collating Reproducer," <I>Automatic Data Processing Equipment</I>, Chicago: Cudahy Publishing Company, 1957. The report, dated December 14, 1956, is in section 4A 660.3, pp. 1–7.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Mathematics
label: web subject
content: Labor Unions
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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 American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.336301
label: accession number
content: 305981
label: catalog number
content: 336301
objectType: label: Object Name
content: reproducer, collating
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 124 cm x 56 cm x 56 cm; 48 13/16 in x 22 1/16 in x 22 1/16 in