Home > LEO Computers > Lyons Electronic Office (LEO) Archive > CMLEO/PB - Peter Bird Collection > CMLEO/PB/PH Photographs > Photographs of LEO III > 60991 Kimball Tag Reader
 

60991 Kimball Tag Reader


Description of Photograph

Photograph of a Kimball Tag Reader as used on LEO. It could read 150 paper tags per minute, producing output onto paper tape which could then be read by LEO.

Published in Bird, Peter  LEO - The First Business Computer  (Wokingham: Hasler, 1994), plate 73

 

Research comments: Kimball tags were physical tags that usually included both human and machine readable data used generally for stock control. They worked much like punched cards for computer processing and were the predecessor of the barcode. (LM)

Provenance
Collected by Peter Bird as part of his research for his book LEO - The First Business Computer (1994).


Date: c1961

Physical Description: 1 photographic print; black and white

Archives Hub References: CMLEO/PB/PH/3/60991
PJB/3/1/2C

Other References: DCMLEO20190809020
                  
                  
                  
                  


Comment on This Photograph

This exhibit has a reference ID of CH60991. Please quote this reference ID in any communication with the Centre for Computing History.

Photograph of 60991  Kimball Tag Reader

Copyright
Lyons copyright

Help support the museum by buying from the museum shop

View all items

Founding Sponsors
redgate Google ARM Real VNC Microsoft Research
Heritage Lottery Funded
Heritage Lottery Fund
Accredited Museum