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I've never seen any 'extended punch card', or any machine that could punch a 132-column card.

132 was the line length of IBM line printers, imitated by many other popular brands, including Printronix and DEC. They printed on that wide green-stripe, fan-fold paper, which came in a standard size that fit 132-column printers.

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I agree about the (lack of) a 132 extended punch card.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card#IBM_96-column_for... points out there was a seldom used IBM 96 card.

There's also Rand's 90 column card.

I liked printing things out to the 132-column printer. I still don't stick to 80 columns in my code. ;)

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