Nah, it's the 32-hole mechanical keycard that was the forerunner to today's electronic ones.
"In 1975 Tor Sørnes invented the VingCard lock, the first known mechanical holecard operated lock. Operated by a plastic key card with a pattern of holes, there were 32 possible hole locations, ... The 32 holes in the key gave 4.3 billion combinations, the same number as the population of the earth at that time"
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Date: 2017-01-10 08:58 pm (UTC)"In 1975 Tor Sørnes invented the VingCard lock, the first known mechanical holecard operated lock. Operated by a plastic key card with a pattern of holes, there were 32 possible hole locations, ... The 32 holes in the key gave 4.3 billion combinations, the same number as the population of the earth at that time"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VingCard_Elsafe
So iii) TOR SØRNES