# 1960s PUNCHED CARD DATA PROCESSING / KEY PUNCH MACHINE IBM 029 COMPUTER "THE KEY PUNCH" 62464

This late 1960s educational color film (#14-677) provides an operational overview for programming the key punch on the IBM 029 Key Punch machine, which was introduced in 1964. It is one of a seven-part series produced by Moreland-Latchford and distributed by Sterling Educational Films. This film reviews the program unit, the components of a program on a punched card, preparing program cards, programming a program card, and the verifier component of the IBM 029. The film opens with a shot of a woman sitting in front of an IBM 029, a washing machine (for comparison of functionality), and a woman taking out different program cards. The IBM 029’s sensing device reads the punched card (01:37). The film shows the program control lever in the off position. A woman handles a drum with a punched card on it. There is a closeup of program cards with 12-punch fields. Program cards are run through the machine. A woman types a program card (05:10). She then takes out the drum and the program card. She inserts programming cards into the IBM machine (07:28). The film shows a pink program card for a student name, gender, date of birth, phone number, and street address. The operator takes out a punched card and compares it to the original (10:18). There is a closeup shot of 12-punch pins on the cards (11:00). A verifier operator repeats the keystrokes to check for accuracy; an error light comes on when an error is detected. A notch is punched on the right of the card when it is verified as…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/62464-punched-card-data-processing-programming-the-key-punch)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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