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Manual Keypunch Machine

Wright Line

(a) Model 2600 Card Punch; rectangular black-enameled aluminum table with four black rubber feet; silver enameled steel card carriage fitted on steel bar on front of table and slotted groove in top of table; silver enamel steel punch unit permanently fixed in center of table; thirteen keys on right; table of values mounted on top of punch housing; SN 5921; marked, "Wright PUNCH/MODEL 2600/WRIGHT LINE/WORCHESTER, MASS. USA"; plastic reservoir underneath captures paper "chads"; (b) carrying case with hinged lid secured by two latches; wood covered with leatherette; punch secured on two felt covered stands with two plastic clips screwed into the stands; tinplate and plastic punch card cubby in lid; faux leather plastic handle; nickel plated steel hardware, stamped "PRESTO LOCK CO."

H-6.5 W-19.75 D-7 inches

ca. 1971

Wright Line

Worchester, MA

Used by donor in his job as a computer programmer for Miles Laboratories in Elkhart, IN. From donor, "I was given this machine by a rehab counselor in Indiana early in my programming career. As with the card reader, knowledge of the Haloreth code was necessary to use this machine to punch data cards. For two years I used this device for a portion of my work. Then my employer purchased a LED-120 Braille terminal for me, for entering job input."

Gift of Paul Filpus, 2013.20