Punch Card Terms

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Herman Hollerith

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Created the first punch cards as a solution to the census of 1890

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Bicentennial Punch Card

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a punch card introduced by IBM which had 96 columns and very tiny small holes

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Jacquard loom card

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a card controlled by a set of punched cards bound together into a ‘program.’

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Type 83 Card Sorter

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used a metal brush to detect the position of the hole in the column being sorted

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Type 26 Printing Keypunch

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became the standard workhorse of the punched card office

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Collator

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can read two stacks of sorted punched cards and merges them into a single sorted stack

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Social Security card

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form that contains the social security card each employee received, and the data that was sent back to the office to be processed

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Time Clocks

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recorded employee working hours; were made by the International Time Recording Company

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Accounting Machines

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electromechanical data processors that could read punched cards, compute sums and subtotals, and print report

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Endicott school building

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IBM schoolhouse that opened in 1933; apart of the IBM education department

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WWII

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during this time, IBM helped the united states fight Germany

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Operator at sorter

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these Powers-Samas machines, designed for smaller punched cards, looked like miniature versions of IBM equipment

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40-column Punched Cards

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these cards recorded the data for the Atlas of the British plant atlas

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Printing card punch

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was used to produce the Atlas of The British Flora in 1962.

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Model 406 Card Sorter

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This sorter could handle more than 300 cards a minute.

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40-column Powers-Samas card

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These cards recorded data such as species name, location, and habitat. The Botanical Society of the British Isles continued to use them into the 1970s.

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Calculator

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a device used to manipulate numbers

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Punch Card

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A card used to record and manipulate data

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Hollerith electric tabulating system

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used in the 1890 census to record datal; the solution to the higher population and winner of the contest

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TMC

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Tabulating machine company founded by Herman Hollerith in 1895