5 Nov
2025
5 Nov
'25
3:14 p.m.
McBee? Like these?
https://www.punchcardarchive.com/Cards/default.aspx?Holder=5351&Img=1
https://www.punchcardarchive.com/Cards/default.aspx?Holder=6286&Img=1
https://www.punchcardarchive.com/Cards/default.aspx?Holder=6206&Img=1
-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 5, 2025 2:54 PM
To: paul.kimpel--- via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Cc: Fred Cisin <cisin(a)xenosoft.com>
Subject: [cctalk] Re: Friden edge punched cards
On Wed, 5 Nov 2025, paul.kimpel--- via cctalk wrote:
I think edge-punched cards were primarily used for
transaction and account data storage with electronic accounting machines during the period
when small and medium size organizations were transitioning from completely manual
accounting and record-keeping systems to computerized ones. They were essentially a
variation on things like mag-stripe ledger cards used with the Burroughs Sensitronic and
E-series accounting machines. I remember seeing the edge-punch card equipment attached to
a Burroughs TC-series machine in the early 1970s.
Royal McBee? used to have an edge punch card system, larger cards.
In my high school, they had a bunch of large edge punch cards to "help" us pick
colleges. Poke multiple needles through the holes, and the ones that were edge punched in
those columns would fall out.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com