IBM D10687 Punch Card Used with IBM Port-a-Punch
IBM D10687 Punch Card Used with IBM Port-a-Punch
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- 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
- Object Name
- Punch Card
- punch card
- date made
- 1960s
- Maker
- IBM
- 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
- ID Number
- 1990.0113.04
- accession number
- 1990.0113
- catalog number
- 1990.0113.04
- Credit Line
- Gift of Robert A. McConnell
- subject
- Mathematics
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- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Computers & Business Machines
- Punch Cards
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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