Termatrex Card Reader
Object Details
- date made
- ca 1969
- maker
- Jonker Business Machines, Inc.
- Description
- The Termatrex card reader has a metal case painted green with a translucent white plastic top. The case contains fluorescent lights. A yellow-edged template and plastic rule are atop the box. A grid of lines allows one to read the number corresponding to the location of a hole on a punched card, or set of punched cards, below the template. One then could refer to a report filed with this number.
- A mark on the rule reads: TERMATREX INFORMATION AND DATA SYSTEMS. Another on the upper right corner of the box reads: JONKER. The Smithsonian propertay tag reads: 80089.
- For a fuller description of the system, with references, see the description of the drill at 1993.0132.01. For cards, see 1993.0132.03. For documentation, see 1993.3065.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- web subject
- Mathematics
- Subject
- Conservation History
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- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Tabulating Equipment
- Science & Mathematics
- Credit Line
- Transfer from Smithsonian Institution Conservation Analytical Laboratory
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- ID Number
- 1993.0132.02
- catalog number
- 1993.0132.02
- accession number
- 1993.0132
- Object Name
- card reader
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- glass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 31.8 cm x 38 cm x 12.7 cm; 12 17/32 in x 14 31/32 in x 5 in
- overall: 4 1/2 in x 16 in x 12 3/8 in; 11.43 cm x 40.64 cm x 31.4325 cm
- Record ID
- nmah_1214017