IBM 1442

IBM 1442
IBM 1442 (also available in blue)
TypePunch card reader,
or reader/writer (punch),
or punch only
Release date1962; 62 years ago (1962)
RelatedIBM 1402 reader/punch;
IBM 2501 reader

IBM 1442[1][2] is a combination IBM card reader and card punch. It reads and punches 80-column IBM-format punched cards[3] and is used on the IBM 1440, the IBM 1130, the IBM 1800[4] and System/360[5] and is an option on the IBM System/3.[6]

  1. ^ In a European museum "Genstand:11000594 IBM 1442 Card read/punch". DataMuseum.dk.
  2. ^ In an American museum: "IBM 1130 system restoration during 2011". TNMOC (The National Museum Of Comput..). Archived from the original on 2019-04-04. Retrieved 2018-10-17.
  3. ^ "IBM Computers: The Photos You Need to See". Remember when computers ran on punch cards?
  4. ^ "Corestore collection: IBM 1800". The CoreStore. The load device that came with the system is the IBM 1442 card reader/punch
  5. ^ "Trinity College Dublin installed an IBM 360/44 in 1968/69". ... drives 7.25MB capacity each 2 IBM 2415 magtape drives 9-track 800/1600-BPI, 1 IBM 2501 card reader, 1 IBM 1442 card punch, 1 IBM 2921 printer controller ...
  6. ^ "IBM System 3". Museum van de 20e eeuw Computers. ... cards were the IBM 2560 Multifunction Card Machine (MFCM) which could read, punch, interpret and sort, and the IBM 1442 which could only read and punch.