Punch, card
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- OBJECT TYPE
- ELECTRIC/90 COLUMN CARD
- DATE
- 1955
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1979.0585.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Sperry Rand Corp.
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- METAL CASING, PARTS/ SYNTHETIC KEYPADS, PARTS
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 44.0 cm
- Width
- 15.0 cm
- Height
- 17.8 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Computing Technology
- Category
- Digital peripheral devices
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Sperry
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
-
Unknown - Function
-
TO PUNCH INFORMATION ONTO COMPUTER CARDS. 90 COLUMN CARD ACTUALLY INVOLVED 45 COLUMNS IN UPPER HALF & 45 IN LOWER HALF OF CARD. THUS CARD WOULD HAVE TO BE OPERATED UPON TWICE IN ORDER TO HAVE DATA ENTERED BOTH BEFORE COLUMN 45 & AFTER (F. BOLTON). - Technical
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Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- PLATE ON BACK READS "Remington Rand/ MANUFACTURED UNDER ONE/ OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWINGPATENTS 2,151,232 2,160,171 2,172,759/ 2,421,069/ MADE IN U.S.A./ PROPERTY OF REMINGTON RAND/ DIVISION OF/ SPERRY RAND CORPORATION"
- Missing
- 2 KEYPADS; A KNOB
- Finish
- TEXTURED GREY PAINTED CASING/ BLACK PAINTED SCALE WITH WHITE MARKINGS/ GREEN PAINTED KEYBOARD COVER/ BLACK KEYPADS WITH WHITE LETTERING/ PLATED PARTS/ BLACK POWER CORD
- Decoration
- LOGO PLATE WITH WORDS "REMINGTON/ RAND" WITH GLOBE
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Sperry Rand Corp., Punch, card, after 1955, Artifact no. 1979.0585, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1979.0585.001/
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