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This section shows stamps depicting punched cards. A punched card is an obsolete storage medium, it is a card that represents data in the form of punched holes. Originally used in the 19th century for controlling textile looms, it was adapted by Herman Hollerith in order to process US 1890 Census data. He founded in 1896 the Tabulating Machine Company that became part of IBM in 1924. Punched cards were the main computers storage medium until 1960's. A common format of punched card was the IBM 80-column.

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ID# 261	Country China (Hong Kong) Date 08-Nov-1990 Issue Christmas Format SH Note punched card and bar code Category
ID# 876	Country Kenya Date 16-Sep-1986 Issue Telecom '86 Nairobi Format SH Category
ID# 687 click to zoom	Country USSR Date 15-Jul-1986 Issue UNESCO Format SH Category
ID# 100 click to zoom	Country Bulgaria Date 04-Aug-1984 Issue National government Format SH Category
ID# 885	Country Singapore Date 10-Nov-1983 Issue World Communications Year Format SH Note teletex service Category
ID# 366	Country Portugal Date 23-Feb-1983 Issue World Communications Year Format SH Category
ID# 99 click to zoom	Country Bulgaria Date 09-Jun-1981 Issue Statistics Format SH Note perforated tape Category
ID# 536	Country Netherlands Date 19-May-1981 Issue Centenaries Format SH Note centenary of national savings banks Category
ID# 98	Country Bulgaria Date 12-Mar-1981 Issue Party Conference Format SH ST Note perforated tape Category
ID# 364 click to zoom	Country Portugal Date 28-Jan-1981 Issue National census Format SH Category
ID# 365 click to zoom	Country Portugal Date 28-Jan-1981 Issue National census Format SH Category
ID# 767 click to zoom	Country Brazil Date 16-Sep-1980 Issue Telecommunication Format SH Category
ID# 680	Country USSR Date 18-Oct-1979 Issue 60th anniversary armed forces Format SH Category
ID# 401 click to zoom	Country Venezuela Date 17-May-1978 Issue 10th World Telecommunications Day Format SH Category
ID# 352	Country Poland Date 04-Apr-1977 Issue 30th anniv. scientific and technical cooperation Poland - USSR Format SH Category
ID# 1072	Country Albania Date 29-Nov-1974 Issue 30th Anniversary of liberation from Fascism Format SH Category
ID# 558 click to zoom	Country Ivory Coast Date 24-Jun-1972 Issue Development of computerized information Format SH Category
ID# 557	Country Ivory Coast Date 24-Jun-1972 Issue Development of computerized information Format SH Category
ID# 421 click to zoom	Country Canada Date 01-Jun-1971 Issue Census Format SH Category
ID# 554 click to zoom	Country Lebanon Date 30-Apr-1971 Issue UNESCO International education year Format SH Category
ID# 555 click to zoom	Country Lebanon Date 30-Apr-1971 Issue UNESCO International education year Format SH Category
ID# 534 click to zoom	Country Netherlands Date 16-Feb-1971 Issue 14th National census Format SH Category
ID# 480 click to zoom	Country Thailand Date 01-Apr-1970 Issue Population census Format SH Category
ID# 248	Country Cuba Date 15-Mar-1970 Issue Expo Osaka Format SH Category
ID# 841	Country Egypt Date 17-Dec-1969 Issue International Congress of Scientific Accounting Format SH Category
ID# 523 click to zoom	Country Norway Date 10-Oct-1969 Issue 200th anniversary 1st national census Format SH Note punched card Category
ID# 57	Country Australia Date 06-Aug-1968 Issue Science Format SH Category
ID# 528 click to zoom	Country Netherlands Date 16-Jan-1968 Issue 50th anniversary of the postal checking service Format SH Category
ID# 73 click to zoom	Country Israel Date 13-Apr-1964 Issue 16th anniversary of proclamation of the State of Israel Format SH Category
ID# 72	Country Israel Date 25-Feb-1959 Issue 10th Anniversary of Israel Postal Services Format SH Note perforated tape Category

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