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===Endings=== <!-- only enough entries to document the end - not every machine! If too many entries accumulate, delete the less common machines --> * 1976: The IBM 407 Accounting Machine was withdrawn from marketing.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070101062514/http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/vintage/vintage_4506VV4007.html IBM 407 Accounting Machine]</ref> * 1978: IBM's Rochester plant made its last shipment of the IBM 082, 084, 085, 087, 514, and 548 machines.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080607052138/http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/rochester/rochester_chronology3.html IBM Rochester chronology, page3]</ref> The System/3 was succeeded by the System/38.<ref name=System3/> * 1980: The last reconditioning of an IBM 519 Document Originating Punch.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080327175507/http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/rochester/rochester_chronology4.html IBM Rochester chronology]</ref> * 1984: The IBM 029 Card Punch, announced in 1964, was withdrawn from marketing.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20060909092223/http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/vintage/vintage_4506VV4002.html IBM 029 Card Punch]</ref> IBM closed its last punch card manufacturing plant.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1984/07/02/ibm-punch-card-plant-will-close/ec29daaf-2c2a-496b-90d0-e6569340fd2d/ IBM Punch-Card Plant Will Close], Joseph Perkins, The Washington Post, July 2, 1984</ref> * 2010: A group from the [[Computer History Museum]] reported that an IBM 402 Accounting Machine and related punched card equipment was still in operation at a filter manufacturing company in [[Conroe, Texas]].<ref>[http://ibm-1401.info/402.html Visit to a working IBM 402 in Conroe, Texas]</ref> The punched card system was still in use as of 2013.<ref>[http://www.chron.com/news/article/Conroe-company-still-using-computers-museums-want-4459714.php#photo-4520417 Conroe company still using computers museums want to put on display] By Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, April 24, 2013</ref> *2011: The owner of Cardamation, Robert G. Swartz, dies, and the company, perhaps the last supplier of punch card equipment, ceases operation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/philly/obituary.aspx?n=robert-g-swartz&pid=155113064|title=Robert G. Swartz|date=December 19, 2011|website=legacy.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite mailing list|url=https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/bit.listserv.ibm-main/ck2jMiqBY_w|title=Cardamation|mailing-list=ibm-main}}</ref> *2015: Punched cards for [[time clock]]s and some other applications were still available; one supplier was the California Tab Card Company.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.californiatabcard.com/index.html|title=California Tab Card Company|access-date=2016-01-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160125014717/http://www.californiatabcard.com/index.html|archive-date=2016-01-25|url-status=dead}}</ref> As of 2018, the web site was no longer in service.
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