OEI E19618 Punch Card for Bell & Howell Schools

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Object Details

Description

This unused cream-colored punch card has eighty columns across and ten labeled rows. A mark along the left edge reads: OEI E19618. A mark in the center of the card reads: Bell & Howell Schools. Three corners are rounded, while the top left corner is truncated. The donor acquired the punch card when he studied electronics engineering technology at the DeVry Institute of Technology in Chicago from 1970 to 1973.

See related nonaccession 2017.3048.01.

Location

Currently not on view

Credit Line

Gift of Frank Lowman

date made

ca 1970

ID Number

2017.0185.01

accession number

2017.0185

catalog number

2017.0185.01

Object Name

punch card

Physical Description

paper (overall material)

Measurements

overall: 8.2 cm x 18.7 cm; 3 7/32 in x 7 3/8 in

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Medicine and Science: Computers

Punch Cards

Data Source

National Museum of American History

Subject

Mathematics

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-6f1f-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record ID

nmah_1846481