Yes, those are cards you can sort with a needle, by hand (no sorting
machinery). My wife remembers them from a college administration, circa 1965.
What I was referring to is different; the Friden cards look like a short piece
of punched paper tape grown into the shape of a punched card.
paul
> On Nov 5, 2025, at 6:14 PM, bluewater emailtoilet.com via cctalk
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Grumpy Ol' Fred [email protected]
