This is a 1960’s era, color movie about Punched Card Data Processing on an IBM Card Sorting Machine. It has 6 sections including: Introducing the Sorter, Numeric Sorting Part I, Numeric Sorting Part, II, Block Sorting, Alphabetic Sorting, The Alphabetic Sorting Switch and Merging. The movie opens with footage of the “sorter”, a card sorting machine :25. 9-inch cards are fed into the sorter, :40. Machine demonstrates how columns of the card can be read, 1;15. The sorter is sorting cords, according to code., 2:00. A demonstration on how the punch cards are actually sorted, 2:43. Sorting machine demonstrates dropping cards into the first – or “reject” – pocket, 3:39. Sorting machine being emptied, 4:10. Arranging student class cards into student numbers, 5:12. Cards organized by gathering them from right to left and putting the last stack gathered on top of the last, 6:00. Block sorting is demonstrated, 7:20. Operator loads cards into sorting machine, 8:50. Alphabetic sorting is demonstrated, 9:32. Selection switches of the machine are shown, 10:55. Card merging is demonstrated, 12:50. Advisors, Barry Burton, Wallace Chole, David Allen and Eric Lewis, 13:18. Director, Helmut Engelhardt. Distributed by Sterling Educational Films.
The IBM 82 Card Sorter is shown. An IBM card sorter is a machine for sorting decks of punched cards in the format popularized by the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), which dominated the punched card data processing industry for much of the twentieth century. Sorting was a major activity in most facilities that processed data on punched cards using unit record equipment. The work flow of many processes required decks of cards to be put into some specific order as determined by the data punched in the cards. The same deck might be sorted differently for different processing steps. The IBM 80 series sorters sorted input cards into one of 13 pockets depending on the holes punched in a selected column and the sorter’s settings. The 82 sorter dates to 1949 and sorted cards at 650/minute.
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