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information on a prescribed position on the punch card.
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IMB 026 Printing-Card-Punch
+ Beginning in 1949 IBM built two versions of this card punch: The IBM 024
+which could just punch cards and the IBM 026 which could additionally print
+the data being punched on the top of the card in human-readable form, so the
+IBM 026 was actually a printing card punch. The printer is of ingenious
+design: A very compact wire printer only a couple of cubic inches in size,
+which is driven by the punch mechanism.
+This is a typical example for the art of engineering that was common at IBM
+at that time: Developing simple, yet powerful solutions. Due to this
+approach, IBM filed (and still does) a vast amount of patent applications.
+The control system of the card punch only contains 10 relays featuring a lot
+of contact sets and 9 vacuum tubes.
+This card punch was so successful that it was built unmodified for 20 years
+and was sold world wide - an exceptional record in an area like electronic
+data processing.
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+ link: "#April_2013"
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link: "#November_2012"
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+April 2013
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+IBM 026 Card Punch now in the technikum29
Look here
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September 2012
-We have overhauled our web pages. The most important changes are a better
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-A "new" computer back from the punch card era has arrived at the museum: A BULL
-Gamma 55 (also known as GE-55). A wonderful system that has been built in
-1966/1967 and survived 26 years in storage in Switzerland. Since the system
-comes with all of the necessary documentation we are planning to restore it to
-working condition (cf. the section describing the Gamma 55).
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