Table of Contents
Advertisement
Preface
User
and
Product:
Operator and
Machine
This
manual
describes
the functional
and
operating charac-
teristics,
and
the
operator procedures
for the
IBM
129 Card
Data
Recorder.
The
IBM
129, operating
with
or
without
a
prepunched
card
program,
is
manually keyed
(and
cor-
rected,
in
main
storage),
then automatically punches
to
provide conventional
80-column punched
cards.
The
IBM
129 Card Data Recorders
which perform
these functions
are available in three
models:
Model
1:
Punch-Verify
Model
2:
Print-Punch
Model
3:
Print-Punch-Verify
Keyed
input
errors
may
be
erased
and
corrected before
being
punched
into the card. Verification
compares keyed
data
with
data read
into
main
storage;
correction
is
then
made
in storage.
After
reverification in storage a correct
card
is
punched.
This
manual
describes the
Model
3 (punch-print-verify),
which
has
a
combined
punch/read
station.
The Model
1
also
has
a
combination
station.
Initial
Model
2 machines
(punch-print)
have
a
separate
punch
station
and
read
station,
similar
to
the
IBM
29 Card
Punch.
Model
2
machines, with
serial
numbers
2xxxx and
higher,
will
have
a
combined
punch/read
station, similar
to
the
Model
1
and
3
machines.
All
operations
are
the
same on
all
Model
2 machines,
whether they have
the separate
punch
station
and
read
station,
or
the
combined
punch/read
station.
The column
indicator
shows
CC
when
a
correction card
should be
punched
in verify
mode
on
Models
1
and
3.
This
CC
indication
is
not
available
on
initial
shipment
Model
1
and
3
machines.
The
CC
indication
will
be
provided
on
machines with
serial
numbers 2xxxx and
higher.
On
initial
Model
1
and
3
machines, the
column
indicator
shows 00
for
the preceding
situation.
A
11
operations are the
same
for
all
machines; only the
indication
on
the
column
indicator
is
different.
OPERATOR
Skill in
operating the card data recorder
(as
with any
machine)
requires
practical
experience.
But
experience
alone
is
not enough.
An
operator can
become
skilled
only
with
a
combination
of personal
instruction, practice,
and
study of
the
manual.
The
purpose of
this
manual
is
to help the user
understand
how
the
IBM
129 Card Data Recorder
operates,
and,
more
importantly,
how
the user operates
it.
The
first
reading of
this
manual
should be
for
overview, to
show what
the
manual
contains,
and where
to find
it.
See
the
Contents
for
the organization
of
this
manual.
Each
section
is
titled
and numbered.
MACHINE
One
of
the
first
operations
in
maintaining
reports
for
accounting
is
transcribing
written records to
punched
cards,
and
checking
or verifying these
cards.
Punched
cards
are
the
most
efficient
kind
to
be
read automatically
by
machines.
Such
records
are
sorted
and summarized
by
machines
in
larger
volume,
at
higher speed,
and with
greater
accuracy
than
is
possible
by any manual
process.
The
punched,
verified
card
is
the
basis for
many
printed
reports.
This
manual
deals
with
the
machine
that
prepares the
card: the
IBM
129 Card Data
Recorder.
Advertisement
Table of Contents
