Remington Rand Tabulating Machine, Model 3, Type 3200
date: label: date made
content: ca 1955
name: label: maker
content: Remington Rand
notes: label: Description
content: This machine is roughly the size and shape of a corner mailbox but much denser. It has a gray metal exterior. Its purpose was to translate and print statements from the numerical and alphabetical information fed in on punched cards. The printing mechanism is on top and the hopper for cards, at the center. Controls for determining what is printed are in front of the print mechanism and on the right side.
label: Description
content: A mark on the front reads: Remington (/) Rand. A mark on a metal tag on the left front reads: Model 3 (/) Type Number 3200. A mark on another tag reads: A.F.L.-C.I.O (/) HEADQUARTERS (/) 37.
label: Description
content: This machine is part of a Remington Rand accounting 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 & Associates, in 1956 the model 3200 alone cost $19,900 to $26,000. It also could be rented for $305 to $455 a month.
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content: References:
label: Description
content: John Diebold & Associates, "Remington Rand Model 3 Alphabetic Tabulator," <I>Automatic Data Processing Equipment</I>, Chicago: Cudahy Publishing Company, 1957. The report, dated June 29, 1956, is in section 4B 660.1, pp. 1–6.
label: Description
content: Remington Rand Univac, <I>Manual of Instructions for Operation the Remington Rand Alphabetical Tabulator Model 3</I>, New York: Remington Rand Univac, no date. Remington Rand purchased Eckert-Mauchly Computer Company, developers of the UNIVAC computer, in 1950.
label: Description
content: Sperry Rand Corporation, <I>Remington Rand Univac Model 3 Tabulator</I>, Sperry Rand Corporation, 1960. This is part of 1997.3012.04, and it did not come with the object. Sperry merged with Remington Rand in 1955.
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content: Accession file.
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.336296
label: accession number
content: 305981
label: catalog number
content: 336296
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tabulating machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 134 cm x 87 cm x 80 cm; 52 3/4 in x 34 1/4 in x 31 1/2 in