Item #39691 An original IBM punch card from the Berkeley Computer Center, University of California, on which the words ‘FREE SPEECH’ have been punched, c. early December 1964. FREE SPEECH MOVEMENT.
An original IBM punch card from the Berkeley Computer Center, University of California, on which the words ‘FREE SPEECH’ have been punched, c. early December 1964.

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An original IBM punch card from the Berkeley Computer Center, University of California, on which the words ‘FREE SPEECH’ have been punched, c. early December 1964.

8.4x18.7cm.

IBM cards were issued to new students at UC Berkeley, emblematic for some of their alienation from the institution. One anonymous student, quoted in the third New University Newsletter from January 1966 (item #13), stated: “And when you arrive on campus you are handed a package of IBM cards, each with your name and student number, and you feel that if one of those cards were to be set on fire, Whoof, you’d be gone.” There were two other versions of the punch cards made by the FSM around the same time: ‘FSM’ and ‘STRIKE’.

Near Fine.

Unusual and scarce ephemera from the Free Speech Movement.

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