Aperture cards (piece of 35mm micro-film mounted in card)
(As opposed to Emmanuel Goldberg's "Rapid Selector", or Vannevar Bush's "Memex")

Round hole Univac/Remington-Rand 90 column
There was folklore that IBM had PATENTED their rectangular hole shape, and the use of a wire brush and brass roller reader

Optical mark cards

IBM System/3 96 columns undersized cards

"Marginal" knitting needle cards(Royal McBee, EZ sort, Zato-code, keysort,...); some even used two depths of notch


It was right about the time of LBJ's re-election that IBM started to round the corners on cards


On Thu, 23 Apr 2020, Mike Stein via cctech wrote:

How about 96 column and EPC (Edge Punched) Cards?

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