[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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