[Milsurplus] Defense Department Drawings found on Computer cards - ?

[J. Forster]

They were called "Aperture Cards". I don't know the start and stop dated,
but I know for certain they were used on Apollo. I had a file cabinet full
of them in my office in 1966-1967...  easily 10,000 of them. There were
drawing for every screw, nut, bolt, whatever.

-John

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> All -
> The better half and I were scouring an,  Antique Mall in the Austin
> area.  I came across stacks of Defense Department Drawings, IBM style
> computer cards with 35MM negatives embedded in the body, some mechanical
> and some electrical, some site type in nature.  ?Never the less,
> Questions abound?
>
> 1.  When did the defense department implement this sort of archival
> practice using IBM style punchcards?
> 2.  Were these archives, on punch cards, ever digitize and stored on
> electronic media such as disk drives or tape, at a later date?
> 3.  I wonder, question, if the WWII TM manuals were ever archived in
> this manner using IBM style punchcards?
>
> Again best description a Computer type IBM punch card, with a cut out
> for a 35mm negative  and a base drawing description typed and punched
> into the card.
>
> I assume declassified and auctioned off for scrap.
> Funny things do appear at the antique mall-
> Later
> Hutch
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