[GreenKeys] Punchcards. Was: off topic? sort of..

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Thu Sep 10 13:46:08 EDT 2015


On Thu, 10 Sep 2015, Jim Haynes wrote:

> Then there were the Remington Rand - Univac punch cards which had round 
> holds and 45 columns and 12 rows treated as 90 columns of 6 rows each. 
> Same size card as IBM.  And a friend who recently visited Bletchley Park 
> sent me a Powers card, which seems to use the same format as Univac but 
> in a much smaller card.

At one time, I had a Burroughs card (lost in various house moves).  It was 
90 columns, sort of squarish, with round holes, as I dimly recall.

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