The IBM 514 Reproducing Punch was a card punching machine developed by IBM

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. The 514 was manufactured from 1949 to 1978. The machine could perform these functions:

• Reproducing all or part of the data on a deck of punched cards.
• Gang punching- copying punched information from a master card.
• Summary punching- punching a total or new balance card amounts which have been accumulated in the accounting machine.
• Mark sensing
  Mark sense
  Electrographic is a term used for punched card and page scanning technology that allowed cards or pages marked with a pencil to be processed or converted into punched cards. That technology was sold by IBM, its developer, under the term mark sense...
  
  - the operation by which information recorded in the form of pencil marks on a card is turned into punches on the cards.

Mark sensing allowed a person to enter data to be used in punched-card data processing without using a keypunch machine. It was used for tasks like recording long distance calls or meter readings.

External links

• Columbia University Computing History: IBM Reproducing/Summary Punches.