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BUY AMER. CERT (Buy America Certified) stenciled on tracks of the Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit system, which was partially funded with federal grants. Section 165 of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 (commonly called the Buy America Act) is a section of the larger STAA that deals with purchases related to rail or road transportation. [1]
A computer punched card reader or just computer card reader is a computer input device used to read computer programs in either source or executable form and data from punched cards. A computer card punch is a computer output device that punches holes in cards. Sometimes computer punch card readers were combined with computer card punches and ...
This category contains articles about punched cards and card handling equipment, including card readers, card punches, and keypunches. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
The Buy American Act is not to be confused with the very similarly named "Buy America Act" that came into effect 50 years later. The latter, a provision of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982, is 49 U.S.C. , § 5323 (j), and applies only to mass-transit-related procurements valued over US$100,000 and funded at least in part by ...
A notched card showing two levels of notching. Edge-notched cards or edge-punched cards are a system used to store a small amount of binary or logical data on paper index cards, encoded via the presence or absence of notches in the edges of the cards. [1]
Cards are read and punched one column at a time and binary cards are permitted. Cards are read using photocells, [8] illuminated by fiber optics, unlike the IBM 1402, which uses wire brushes to read cards. It is even possible to create (but not read, except in Binary Mode [9]) "IBM Doilies," cards with every possible hole punched. Few other ...
A single program deck, with individual subroutines marked. The markings show the effects of editing, as cards are replaced or reordered. Many early programming languages, including FORTRAN, COBOL and the various IBM assembler languages, used only the first 72 columns of a card – a tradition that traces back to the IBM 711 card reader used on the IBM 704/709/7090/7094 series (especially the ...
The punch card project was so extensive and immediate that the War Relocation Authority subcontracted the function to IBM. [ 1 ] IBM equipment was used for cryptography by US Army and Navy organisations, Arlington Hall and OP-20-G and similar Allied organisations using Hollerith punched cards ( Central Bureau and the Far East Combined Bureau ).