IBM card sorting machine Model 82
Card sorter, 1949, IBM. The IBM 082 sorter arranges punched cards into pockets according to the hole punched in one column, at 650 cards per minute; sorting on several columns is done by repeated passes. It was the workhorse of punched-card data processing rooms in the 1950s and 1960s, used with keypunches, collators and tabulators before and alongside the first computers, and remained in service into the 1970s.
| Years | 1949 to 1970s |
|---|---|
| Speed | 650 cards per minute |
| Function | sorts 80-column cards into 13 pockets by the punching in a selected column |
| Mechanism | electromechanical, single column brush |
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