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 <[email protected]> 
Sent: Wednesday, November 5, 2025 2:54 PM
To: paul.kimpel--- via cctalk <[email protected]>
Cc: Fred Cisin <[email protected]>
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                 [email protected]

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