Sorter, card
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- OBJECT TYPE
- PHOTO-SENSING/80 COLUMN
- DATE
- 1969
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1980.0272.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Sperry Rand Corp.
- MODEL
- UNIVAC 1720 SORTER
- LOCATION
- United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- 1063
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- METAL CASING, WORKING PARTS/ SYNTHETIC CASING TOP, WORKING PARTS
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 162.8 cm
- Width
- 61.7 cm
- Height
- 116.3 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
- CIRCA 1969+
- Canada
-
Unknown - Function
-
COMPUTER PERIPHERAL DEVICE USED TO SORT CARDS PUNCHED WITH HOLES REPRESENTING DATA. MACHINE PHOTO-ELECTRICALLY SCANS CARDS TO SENSE HOLES & THUS CODES, & SORTS CARDS ACCORDINGLY. - Technical
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EXAMPLE OF LATE 1960'S PUNCHED CARD MACHINERY MADE BY MAJOR COMPUTER EQUIPMENT MFR. OF PERIOD, FROM SPERRY RAND'S 1700 SERIES OF CARD EQUIPMENT (SEE ALSO 830472). IT EMPLOYED PHOTO-ELECTRIC SENSORS TO READ & SORT STANDARD 80-COLUMN PUNCHED CARDS. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- BLACK & ORANGE PLATES ON FRONT & BACK READING "UNIVAC SPERRY RAND" & ON FRONT "UNIVAC 1720"
- Missing
- APPEARS COMPLETE
- Finish
- TEXTURED LIGHT GRAY PAINTED CASING FRONT & BACK WITH DARK GREY END PANELS/CREAM COLOURED SYNTHETIC TOP & GLOSSY PAINTED METAL PARTS/ BLACK SYNTHETIC PARTS/ BRUSHED METAL & TEXTURED BLACK PAINTED PARTS
- Decoration
- ORANGE & METALLIC TRIM
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Sperry Rand Corp., Sorter, card, circa 1969, Artifact no. 1980.0272, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1980.0272.001/
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