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Punchboards used for gambling in California in the 1910s were a game "where the player puys for the privilege of inserting a disk in a covered hole on a board and punches out a number, which, if it corresponds to a certain number on the board, a prize is awarded the player."
1984: The IBM 029 Card Punch, announced in 1964, was withdrawn from marketing. [69] IBM closed its last punch card manufacturing plant. [70] 2010: A group from the Computer History Museum reported that an IBM 402 Accounting Machine and related punched card equipment was still in operation at a filter manufacturing company in Conroe, Texas. [71]
When use of the ticket punch proved tiring and error-prone, Hollerith developed the pantograph "keyboard punch". It featured an enlarged diagram of the card, indicating the positions of the holes to be punched. A printed reading board could be placed under a card that was to be read manually. [35]: 43 Hollerith envisioned a number of card sizes.
Election workers count punch-card ballots on election night Nov. 4, 1986. At that time the county computer center was on the fourth floor of the old courthouse, the former jail when the building ...
From the outside in, the sequence is $100–$500–$1,000–$0, with the middle space worth $10,000. The contestant wins the corresponding amount of money once the chip falls into a space, and the chip is removed from the board. If a chip becomes stuck on the board, it is knocked loose and returned to the contestant to drop again.
Others in the series included the IBM 513 & IBM 514 Reproducing Punch. The 519, which was "state of the art for the time", [1] could: reproduce all or parts of the information on a set of cards "gangpunch" - copy information from a master card into the following detail cards; print up to eight digits on the end of a card; compare two decks of cards
Paddle boards are supposed to hold you up — not pose a threat of drowning. That’s why Surf 9 recalled about 20,300 Body Glove Tandem and ULI inflatable paddle boards and supyaks sold ...
Numeric columns have one punch in rows 0-9, possibly a sign overpunch in rows 11-12, and can be sorted in a single pass through the sorter. Alphabetic columns have a zone punch in rows 12, 11, or 0 and a digit punch in one of the rows 1-9, and can be sorted by passing some or all of the cards through the sorter twice on that column.