The IBM 29 card punch was announced on October
14, 1964, the newest version of a device first
developed 74 years earlier. The punch and its
companion, the IBM 59 card verifier, were used
to record and check information in punched cards.
The cards were then read and processed by a computer
or an accounting machine. The IBM 29 remained
in the product catalog until May 1984. (VV4002)