Equipment used in this data processing cycle included a digital tape translator, an IBM 709 computer, an analog computer, various tape and card converters and card punches, analog and digital playback equipment, data plotters, chart and film readers, oscilloscope cameras and oscilloscopes, a photo darkroom, and miscellaneous support equipment.
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A " typical " configuration might consist of a S / 360 model 30 with 32KB memory and the decimal instruction set, an IBM 2540 card reader / card punch, an IBM 1403 printer, two or three IBM 2311 disks, two IBM 2415 magnetic tape drives, and the 1052-7 console.
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Raymond Loewy, industrial designer of " streamlined " motifs who also designed railway passenger cars of the 1930s and 1940s, did the award-winning external design of the 026 / 024 Card Punches for IBM . Their heavy steel construction and rounded corners ( photos ) indeed echo the industrial Art Deco style.
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For teaching computer science students in Australian schools Monash University created subsets of the FORTRAN language, an elementary version called MINITRAN then an enhanced version called MIDITRAN . MIDITRAN versions were available for a number of different mainframe systems, i . e . 80-column punch cards were an option for students if a card punch was available.
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When IBM moved into the production of electronic computers in the 1950s it adapted its existing standardised punched cards and associated card punches and readers as a convenient way of storing data and programs off-line-and the sale of blank cards was a profitable commercial sideline-but a tabulating machine is just an electro-mechanical sorter, and is in no sense a computer.
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The CA-1 " Punched Card Coupler " can connect one or two IBM 026 card punches ( which were more often used as manual devices ) to read cards at 17 columns per second ( ca . 12 full cards per minute ) or punch cards at 11 columns per second ( ca . eight full cards per minute ).
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The museum's 200 pieces span a century of computer technology : a 1900 circular slide rule that looks like a pocket watch; an IBM 360 mainframe computer from the 1960s that's about the size of three gym lockers; the KIM Homebrew computer, a kit that sold for dlrs 25 and had a homemade wooden frame; and column card punch machines from the 1950s-60s.
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While IBM was a chief proponent of the ASCII standardization committee, the company did not have time to prepare ASCII peripherals ( such as card punch machines ) to ship with its System / 360 computers, so the company settled on EBCDIC . The System / 360 became wildly successful, together with clones such as RCA Spectra 70, ICL System 4, and Fujitsu FACOM, thus so did EBCDIC.
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In these installations the big computer ( e . g ., a UNIVAC III ) did all of its input-output on magnetic tapes and the 1050 was used to format input data from other peripherals ( e . g ., punched card readers ) on the tapes and transfer output data from the tapes to other peripherals ( e . g ., punched card punches or the lineprinter ).