IBM 557

The IBM 557 Alphabetic Interpreter (photo) allowed holes in punched cards to be interpreted and the punched card characters printed on any row or column, selected by a control panel. Introduced in 1954, the machine was a synchronous system where brushes would glide over a hole in a punched card and contact a brass roller thereby setting up part of a character code. There are no 557's operating commercially in the world today.

The 557 was a maintenance headache. In reality it was 60 little printers. The sequence was as follows:

The 557 was prone to jamming of the lifter bars and resulted in what the CEs called a “Rack & Wheel” job. This meant stripping the machine down to its base and rebuilding it, an 8-hour job.

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