Second Entry:
As long as I can remember, my father had this tie clip, with this metal plate attached to it. Somewhere during my childhood, I got the idea that this was his name represented in some punchcard code.
After my father passed away near the end of 2008, this came into my possession. I looked at it, and realized that there were a lot more bits on it than it would take to represent his name. Curious about what this really was, I started doing some online searching for information about punchcards and punchcard codes.
What I ultimately learned is that this is not a punchcard code at all, but a part of a 1950s-vintage IBM 026 keypunch machine.
The Wikipedia article on “keypunch” contained a picture of a plate just like this one, with the exact same bit pattern on it, and an explanation of it's function. It's basically, a crude form of a character-generator ROM, used to specify which pins should fire in a 5×7 matrix printhead to print any given character on the card, above the column punched to represent that character.