Drawer for Storing Punch Cards

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Drawer for Storing Punch Cards
Description:

From the 1890s, punched paper cards were used to store data for tabulating machines and then, from the 1950s, for electronic computers. This metal drawer was used in the 1970s to transport computer punch cards at the Smithsonian Institution, and was received from the Computer Services Center of the National Museum of American History. It is marked at the back: TAB PRODUCTS CO. The firm TAB Products Company was founded in Deleware in 1954 by two former IBM salesmen. It sold a variety of file boxes and containers for offices using computers, and then moved on to other products.

Date Made: 1970s

Location: Currently not on view

See more items in: Medicine and Science: Computers, Computers & Business Machines

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Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: 2012.3098.119Catalog Number: 2012.3098.119Nonaccession Number: 2012.3098

Object Name: drawer, metal

Physical Description: metal (overall material)Measurements: overall: 4 5/8 in x 7 9/16 in x 16 in; 11.7475 cm x 19.20875 cm x 40.64 cm

Metadata Usage: CC0

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-af06-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_1756788

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