Accounting machine (Machines de Comptabilite a Cartes Perforees)
Catalog Number
102668073
Type
Physical object
Description
Card reader/Printer/Calculator made by Bull, but with German labelled controls. The left side holds a programming plugboard and two cable connector sockets on the back. The front has a control panel with 18 rocker switches labelled in German. The center is a 96 column drum printer. The right side has a vertical stack card reader on top, 3 rocker switches to control it in the center, and the card hopper at the bottom. Internally, there are 4 hinged gates. The front gate is mostly populated with what appears to be pluggable relays. There are no elecctronics beyond motors, switches, and relays.
Manufacturer
Bull Company
Place Manufactured
France
Identifying Numbers
Other number
571/6/00096/3
Typed on a yellow decal on top rear of left (probably an inventory number for the Technische Hochschul)