The tape transport was followed by the " 405 Card Punch ", followed by a series of tape drives and drum printers, all of which were designed in-house.
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The additional components of the computer were a card punch, a central processing unit, a power supply unit, an operator's console / card reader unit, and a printer.
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To support a batch processing operation, a number of comparatively inexpensive card punch or paper tape writers were used by programmers to write their programs " offline ".
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Originally, the bit bucket was the container on card punch was deposited; the formal name is " chad box " or ( at IBM ) " chip box ".
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The prize pieces are the Hollerith Manual Card Punch, based on a Herman Hollerith invention for taking the 1890 U . S . Census, and the Royal Precision Vacuum Tube Computer.
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Problems with automated vote-counting equipment, especially the computer card punch type used in south Florida, have been well documented, said Rebecca Mercuri, a visiting professor of computer science at Bryn Mawr College.
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The LINK program running on the H200 handled the OLA, copied punched cards or punched paper tape to magnetic tape, and copied records from magnetic tape to card punch or to line printer.
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The system was mainly used for key-to-disk operations to replace the previously popular IBM card punches and more advanced key-to-tape systems manufactured for example by Mohawk Data Sciences ( MDS ) or Singer.
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Similarly for the card punch; the word for a particular row was prepared in advance and had to be ready when a given row of the card was in position under the punch knives.
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They were also notable for allowing customers to listen to CDs before buying them, and for their " Repeat Performer " customer card program, where 20 card punches earned a free CD or cassette tape.
