Carrying Case for Punch Cards
Object Details
- Description
- This sturdy black case for carrying punch cards has two locks along one long side and four rubber feet at one end. A metal label on one side reads: TAB. A damaged plastic tag reads: J. P.
- Inside the case are perhaps seventy white eighty-column carrying the logo of Florida Technological University and the date 1962. These cards are also marked: LEWIS 50625. There are also roughly thirty pink eighty-column cards (without a notch in any corner) that are marked: GLOBE NO. 1 STANDARD FORM 5081. Finally, there are perhaps twenty orange eighty-column cards marked: LEWIS 5081.
- These cards are suited for use with IBM computing equipment, but were not made by IBM.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- ca 1963
- ID Number
- 1987.0750.01
- catalog number
- 1987.0750.01
- accession number
- 1987.0750
- maker
- IBM
- Lewis
- Object Name
- Software
- Physical Description
- paper (cards material)
- plastic (case material)
- metal (lock, trim material)
- Measurements
- overall: 12 cm x 47 cm x 23 cm; 4 23/32 in x 18 1/2 in x 9 1/16 in
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Record ID
- nmah_742495
