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IBM 519

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| logo = IBM Logo 1947 1956.svg

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| release date = {{Start date and age|1946}}

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| type = Unit record equipment

| caption = An IBM 519 Document-Originating Machine with plugboard control panel open (it would be closed during operation).

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| image = Lochkartendoppler IBM 519.jpg

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}}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. Others in the series included the IBM 513 & IBM 514 Reproducing Punch.

The 519, which was "state of the art for the time",

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| author= June Duran Stock

| title= The Twenty-Five Cent Gamble

| date=2012

| isbn= 978-1477287583

| page= 157

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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" — create punch cards containing summary information provided by a connected accounting machine, such as totals from a group of processed cards
  • "mark sense" — detect marks made with an electrographic pencil in designated locations on a punched card and then punch holes corresponding to those marks into the card
  • number cards consecutively (an optional feature)

The reproducing, gangpunching, summary punching, and comparing features of the IBM 519 are very similar to those of the IBM 513 and IBM 514.

{{anchor|IBM 513}}IBM 513 Reproducing Punch

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|image1=Gebouwen en monumenten knhm, machines, ibm marksensing reproducer type 513, Bestanddeelnr 162-0895.jpg

|caption1=The IBM 513

|image2=SIGABA key generator.png

|caption2=the IBM 513 (left), connected to a device used to generate keys for the SIGABA cipher machine during World War II

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The IBM 513 Reproducing Punch, like the IBM 514, had some - but not all - of the capabilities included in the IBM 519.{{cite book |date=1959

|url=http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/punchedCard/Punches/D24-1014-0_Automatic_Punches_General_Information_Manual_1959.pdf

|title=Automatic Punches - General Information Manual}}[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/513.jpg IBM 513 at Columbia's Computing History page] This model was released circa 1933.{{Cite web|title=IBM1401_ArchivePics.html|url=http://ibm-1401.info/IBM1401_ArchivePics.html|access-date=2021-11-27|website=ibm-1401.info}}

{{anchor|IBM 514}}IBM 514 Reproducing Punch

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The IBM 514 Reproducing Punch was introduced in February 1949.{{cite web

|url=https://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/rochester/rochester_4011.html

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070310203852/http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/rochester/rochester_4011.html

|url-status=dead

|archive-date=March 10, 2007

|title=IBM 514}} Like the 513, it had fewer capabilities than the IBM 519. The 514 was withdrawn in 1978.

The identifier "IBM 514" has been partially recycled in the form of "IBM 514 Watt(s) Hot-Swap Power Supply."{{cite web

|url=https://www.ebay.com/itm/39Y7179-IBM-514-Watts-Hot-Swap-Power-Supply-for-System-x226-/263813410393

|title=39Y7179 IBM 514-Watts Hot Swap Power Supply for System x226}}{{cite web

|url=https://www.amazon.ca/7000758-0000-IBM-Hot-Swap-Power-Supply/dp/B005MQMR08

|title=7000758-0000 IBM 514 Watt Hot-Swap Power Supply. New Pull}}

=Capabilities table=

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!Capability

!513
Repro
Punch

!514
Repro
Punch

!519
Doc
Mach.

Comparing

|{{Yes}}

|{{Yes}}

|{{Yes}}

Editing

|{{Yes}}

|{{Yes}}

|{{Yes}}

End Printing

|{{N/a}}

|{{N/a}}

|{{Yes}}

Gangpunching

|{{Yes}}

|{{Yes}}

|{{Yes}}

Mark-Sense
Punching

|{{Yes}}

|{{Yes}}

|{{Yes}}

Reproducing

|{{Yes}}

|{{Yes}}

|{{Yes}}

Summary Punching

|{{Yes}}

|{{Yes}}

|{{Yes}}

The IBM 513, 514 and 519 all operated at 100 cards per minute,{{cite web

|title=View Digitized Material

|website=AMhistory.SI.edu (National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution)

|date=August 26, 1970 |url=http://AMhistory.si.edu/archives/AC0196_gros700826.pdf}} and their operations were directed by a removable control panel that was known as a plugboard.{{cite web

|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/reproducer.html

|title=IBM Reproducing / Summary Punches}} As with other IBM punched card devices that operated as automatic punches, cards are fed "face down, 12-edge first.".{{cite book |page=6

|url=http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/punchedCard/Punches/A24-1002-2_513-514_ReproducingPunch.pdf

|title=Reference Manual - IBM 513, 514 Reproducing Punches |id=A24-1002-2}} (On devices that operated as automatic readers, cards were fed "face down, 9-edge first instead.)

History

Production of the IBM 519 was still going strong in 1956/1957, and production was consolidated to Rochester (for the Americas) and Milan, Italy.{{cite web

|url=https://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/rochester/rochester_chronology4.html

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080327175507/http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/rochester/rochester_chronology4.html

|url-status=dead

|archive-date=March 27, 2008

|title=Rochester chronology, page 4}}{{cite web |url=https://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/italy/italy_ch2.html

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070303102011/http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/italy/italy_ch2.html

|url-status=dead

|archive-date=March 3, 2007

|title=IBM Archives: Italy chronology 1950 - 1969}} IBM closed its last punched card manufacturing plant in 1984,{{cite news |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=July 2, 1984

|title=IBM Punch-Card Plant Will Close

|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1984/07/02/ibm-punch-card-plant-will-close/ec29daaf-2c2a-496b-90d0-e6569340fd2d/?noredirect=on |author=Joseph Perkins}} nearly a century after Herman Hollerith's 1886 construction of the first card sorting machine.{{cite book

|title=The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference

|url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0312643020 |isbn=978-0312643027

|work=The New York Times |date=2011}}

References

Image:IBM punch card duplicator Trondheim.jpg

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IBM manuals:

  • {{cite book

| last = IBM

| title = IBM Automatic Punches

| year = 1959

| id = D24-1014-0

| url = http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/punchedCard/Punches/D24-1014-0_Automatic_Punches_General_Information_Manual_1959.pdf}}

  • {{cite book

| last = IBM

| title = IBM Reference Manual: 519 Document-Originating Machine

| date = 1959

| id = A24-1017-0

| url = http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/punchedCard/DocumentOriginatingMachine/A24-1017-0_519_DocumentOriginatingMachine.pdf

}}

External links

  • [http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/reproducer.html Columbia University Computing History: IBM Reproducing/Summary Punches].
  • [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/513.jpg Photo of IBM 513]. It doesn't resemble the 514.
  • [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/514.jpg Photo of IBM 514]. Compare to the 519.
  • [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/513.jpg Photo of IBM 519]

519

Category:Computer-related introductions in 1946