Tristan Davey's Punch Card Archive

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Bits of history...<br>Punched cards were once a ubiquitous part of accounting, data collection and early computing. At their<br>peak of use, in the 1950s and 60s, hundreds of companies around the world printed millions of punch<br>cards every month. Yet within a few years of their obsolescence they all but disappeared from the<br>public consciousness.<br>This archive captures a small selection of these cards and their ephemera, and aims to document<br>and preserve these pieces of history for the future.

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Punch Cards

Hardware

Manuals & Print Matter

Catalogue Statistics<br>This archive includes:<br>255<br>punch cardsin 5 card formats<br>printed by 55 printers<br>for<br>64 different companies

11<br>real pieces of punch card hardwaremade by 3 manufacturers

18<br>manuals and other print matterdocumenting 100 different products

Featured Contents<br>Bell Telephone Laboratories - Aperture Card - Cream - 1973<br>Printer3M (MMM)CountryUnited States of AmericaFamilyBell Telephone Laboratories - Aperture CardFormat80 ColumnsColorCream<br>Blue StripeMaterialsPaper<br>Microfilm

General Railway Signal Company - 716072<br>PrinterUnknownCountryUnited KingdomFormat80 ColumnsColorPinkMaterialsPaper

IBM 1626<br>PrinterInternational Business Machines Corporation (IBM)CountryUnited States of AmericaFormat45 ColumnsColorCreamMaterialsPaper

IBM Ziffernkarte Nr. 5 - Blue<br>PrinterInternational Business Machines Corporation (IBM)CountryGermany (Deutschland)FamilyIBM Ziffernkarte Nr. 5Format80 ColumnsColorBlueMaterialsPaper