Functions
The following operations may be performed at the rate of 450 cards per minute:
- Sort IBM cards in numeric or alphabetic sequence
- Arrange cards into any desired pattern
- Check cards for consistency of coded information
- Check the accuracy of sorting
- Search files of cards for specific facts or combinations of facts
- Count cards for as many as 60 different classifications in one run
- Add two 5-digit amounts punched in IBM cards to accumulate two 8-position totals; or add one 9-digit amount to accumulate a 12-position total
- Print results in final form on one or two reports of convenient size
- Print group identification
- Print a check symbol on each line of the report to indicate that totals printed on the line cross-check
- Summary punch totals when one or two summary punches are connected to the 101.
The operation of the 101 was directed by the use of a removable control panel.
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