Saurer card format

Saurer cards have the following characteristics:

22 holes in all.
The center four holes encode M/c functions.
The sides – 9-9 holes – encode X/Y coordinates.
Transport holes (larger) are on the edge of the card.

Some function holes are a toggle, counting from the start of design:

even number = initial state (slow).
odd number = opposite state (fast).

The meaning of the encoding is interpreted by the Wilcom FIXPAT program in the format X=, Y=, M/c function as shown below.

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