Abstract
The valuable “Survey of Punched Card Codes” prepared by Smith and Williams (Comm. ACM 3, Dec. 1960, 638) unfortunately omits the card codes of European equipment, other than IBM. These are presented in the table on page 181. This information has been extracted from a Ferranti publication, “Collected Information on Punched Card Codes” (List CS 266) and has been set out in much the same way as the table by Smith and Williams.
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