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Old and new punched cards

 
 
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IBM announced on December 1, 1964, that round corner cards would be a regular feature on its general purpose punched cards. Round corner cards, announced a year earlier by IBM, accounted for more than two-thirds of the company's punched card volume (measured in the tens of billions a year) by 1965. Virtually all punched cards had been manufactured with square corners since they were first used in the 1890 census.
 
 
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