IBM Card Punch Position

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Date
1952
Credit Line
Courtesy of the IBM Corporate Archive
Copyright Owner
© International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)
Object ID
500004192

IBM cards could store up to 80 characters. This diagram shows the positions of the holes for each of those characters: numbers, letters and special characters. Some experienced card handlers could read the cards without aid of machinery!