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Jiffy Slate

Bright aluminum card slate for 3 x 5 cards; not hinged; cards slide into slate; 6 lines of 19 cells. "Howe Press Perkins School Watertown, Mass." --front of slate.

H-3.125 W-5.625 inches

ca. 1970

Howe Press

Watertown, MA

Harry J. Friedman, Director of the Howe Press, reported at an October 1969 Conference on the Blind in Computer Programming that "at the suggestion of one Robert Gildea, on Wednesday we released a new design that we call the Jiffy Slate made strictly for Hollerith cards. It has no hinges and no paper retaining pins. Just slip the card in and out." Note: Gildea was a computer programmer who was blind who worked for the MITRE Corporation on braille translation. The idea was soon expanded to a "Jiffy" slate that accommodated 3x5" index cards.

APH Collection, 1992.23