IBM D10687 Punch Card Used with IBM Port-a-Punch

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IBM D10687 Punch Card Used with IBM Port-a-Punch, Front View
IBM D10687 Punch Card Used with IBM Port-a-Punch, Front View
IBM Port-a-Punch Card Punch with Punch Card and Stylus
IBM D10687 Punch Card Used with IBM Port-a-Punch, Back View

Object Details

Maker

IBM

Description

This eighty-column paper punch card has serrations for easy punching of holes. The columns are divided into eight fields for entering data. A mark along the right edge reads: IBM D10687 Port-A-Punch General Purpose 8 Field. The card was designed for use with an IBM Port-A-Punch (see 1990.0113,02). Several similar cards received at the same time are stored with the object.

The materials in this accession were used in Robert A. McConnell's research on parapsychology.

Location

Currently not on view

Credit Line

Gift of Robert A. McConnell

date made

1960s

ID Number

1990.0113.04

accession number

1990.0113

catalog number

1990.0113.04

Object Name

Punch Card

punch card

Physical Description

paper (overall material)

Measurements

overall: .1 cm x 18.8 cm x 8.3 cm; 1/32 in x 7 13/32 in x 3 9/32 in

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Medicine and Science: Mathematics

Computers & Business Machines

Punch Cards

Data Source

National Museum of American History

Subject

Mathematics

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a7-6ebf-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record ID

nmah_904249