IBM Port-a-Punch Card Punch
Object Details
- date made
- 1960s
- maker
- IBM
- Description
- From 1958, IBM Corporation sold portable, stylus-operated card punches like this one to prepare the cards used in data processing equipment.
- The tan instrument consists of a plastic frame that holds 13 long plastic rectangles along its length. A transparent plastic template which has an array of evenly spaced holes fits over the rectangles, and cards are placed over this. A plastic stylus with a metal point punches holes. The object and a card with instructions fit in a cardboard box. A mark on the punch reads: IBM PORT-A-PUNCH. A mark on the end of the box reads: International Business Machines Corporation [/] Part No. 456861.
- Card 1990.0113.04 (an IBM D10687 punch card) was designed for use with this card punch.
- The materials in this accession were used to reduce data accumulated in Robert A. McConnell’s research on parapsychology.
- References:
- Accession file.
- Web site of the IBM Archives, accessed October 16, 2012.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- web subject
- Psychology
- Mathematics
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- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Tabulating Equipment
- Science & Mathematics
- Credit Line
- Gift of Robert A. McConnell
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- ID Number
- 1990.0113.02
- catalog number
- 1990.0113.02
- accession number
- 1990.0113
- Object Name
- tabulating equipment
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1.6 cm x 23 cm x 12.3 cm; 5/8 in x 9 1/16 in x 4 27/32 in
- Record ID
- nmah_904247