• 1946

Hardware Description

The IBM 519 Document-Originating Machine, introduced in 1946, was the last in a series of unit record machines designed for automated preparation of punched cards. It 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
summary punch information provided by a connected accounting machine
“mark sense.” - marks made with an electrographic pencil in designated locations on a punched card are sensed and then holes corresponding to those marks punched into the card
number cards consecutively (an optional feature)

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