Fifteen different unused vintage IBM-format 80-column “Hollerith” computer punch cards.

Comprises:

o A round-cornered dark orange card with no slashed corner, printed by McCorquodale with black printing, labelled “UNIVERSITY OF LONDON COMPUTER CENTRE” and “JOB CONTROL CARD” and intended for use as such.

o A round-cornered white card with slashed left corner and no stripe, printed by IBM with black printing, labelled “DATA” and with 10-column fields marked for use in entering data.

o A round-cornered white card with slashed left corner and pink stripe, printed by IBM with black printing, labelled “6000 SCOPE BINARY CARD” (where SCOPE, meaning “Supervisory Control of Program Execution”, was an operating system for Control Data 6000 series computers) and “UNIVERSITY OF LONDON”, marked with fields used for punched binary output from a computer.

o A round-cornered pale orange card with slashed left corner, printed by IBM with black printing, labelled “UNIVERSITY OF LONDON” and “JOB CONTROL CARD” and intended for use as such.

o A round-cornered white card with slashed left corner and orange stripe, printed by Dataset with black printing, labelled “UNIVERSITY OF LONDON” and “FORTRAN STATEMENT” with fields marked for use in entering program statements in the Fortran language.

o A round-cornered white card with slashed left corner and green stripe, printed by IBM with black printing, labelled “FORTRAN STATEMENT” with fields marked for use in entering program statements in the Fortran language.

o A round-cornered white card with slashed left corner and blue stripe, printed by Dataset with black printing, labelled “UNIVERSITY OF LONDON” and “FORTRAN STATEMENT” with fields marked for use in entering program statements in the Fortran language.

o A round-cornered white card with slashed left corner and red stripe, printed by IBM with black printing, labelled “FORTRAN STATEMENT” with fields marked for use in entering program statements in the Fortran language.

o A round-cornered white card with slashed left corner and yellow stripe, printed by IBM with black printing, labelled “FORTRAN STATEMENT” with fields marked for use in entering program statements in the Fortran language.

o A round-cornered bright white card with slashed right corner, printed by IBM with black printing.

o A round-cornered white card with slashed left corner, printed by IBM with red printing, labelled “MULTIPLE CHOICE ANSWER CARD” and “IMPERIAL COLLEGE COMPUTER CENTRE”. This is a mark-sense card, with spaces corresponding to even-numbered columns shown for pencil marking and labelled with letters indicating the answer choices. (This card has been abused as an end-of-record card by having three holes punched in its bottom left corner.)

o A round-cornered bright white card with slashed left corner, printed by IBM with red printing, labelled “ICCC GENERAL PURPOSE CARD” (meaning “Imperial College Computer Centre”). This is a mark-sense card, with spaces corresponding to even-numbered columns shown for pencil marking and labelled with characters indicating the alphanumeric code used.

o A square-cornered white card with no slashed corner and no printing.

o A round-cornered blue card with slashed left corner, printed by IBM with red printing, labelled “UNIVERSITY OF LONDON” and “JOB CONTROL CARD” and intended for use as such.

o A round-cornered bright white card with slashed left corner and no stripe, printed by IBM with red printing, labelled “UNIVERSITY OF LONDON” and “FORTRAN STATEMENT” with fields marked for use in entering program statements in the Fortran language.

Cards are unused and in excellent condition: all fifteen are different.