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This paper presents an overview of the usage of unit record equipment and punched cards in Iceland and introduces some of the pioneers. The usage of punched cards as a media in file processing started 1949 and became the dominant machine readable media in Iceland until 1968. After that punched cards were still used as data entry media for a while but went completely out of use in 1982.
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Kjartansson, Ó. (2009). Data Processing with Unit Record Equipment in Iceland. In: Impagliazzo, J., Järvi, T., Paju, P. (eds) History of Nordic Computing 2. HiNC 2007. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 303. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03757-3_23
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