Remington Rand Model 20 Type 321 Card Sorter, 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 electrically powered machine is part of a Remington Rand punched card data processing system. The sorter could arrange Remington Rand punch cards into any sequence, usually a numerical, alphabetic, or alphanumeric sequence. It has a gray metal exterior and several bins, arranged horizontally, into which the cards are sorted.
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content: A mark on a tag attached to the machine reads: Model 20 Type 321. A mark on another tag reads: A.F.L.-C.I.O (/) HEADQUARTERS (/) 38. Another mark reads: Remington Rand.
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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. According to Diebold, in 1956 a 321 automatic sorter that sorted 420 cards per minute sold for $3,452 and rented for $50 per month.
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content: Reference:
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content: John Diebold & Associates, "Remington Rand Type 320 and 321 Automatic Sorters," <I>Automatic Data Processing Equipment</I>, Chicago: Cudahy Publishing Company, 1957. The report, dated 1956, is in section 4A 660.4, pp. 1–4.
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
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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.336299
label: accession number
content: 305981
label: catalog number
content: 336299
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sorter
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content: metal (overall material)
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content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 108.5 cm x 161 cm x 47 cm; 42 23/32 in x 63 3/8 in x 18 1/2 in