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English: This card was used to load software into a mainframe computer. Each byte (the letter 'A', for example) is entered by punching out a column of holes.

Contents appear to be a line from a Fortran program:

12   PIFRA=(A(JB,37)-A(JB,99))/A(JB,47)                                PUX 0430

where 12 is a statement label and PUX 430, starting in column 73, would typically be a card sequence number.

Per author "You may scoff at the low-tech but this data has survived longer than most CD-Rs will last - they rot in a decade or so..."
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Source Used Punchcard
Author Pete Birkinshaw from Manchester, UK

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by BinaryApe at https://flickr.com/photos/93001633@N00/5151286161. It was reviewed on 27 June 2016 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.

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