The operation cards displayed look to be mostly divide/subtract or subtract-retain(symmetric if rotated 180 degrees or flipped), with a handful of + or *, depending on orientation. Assuming this was it–and (like no action cards that rang a bell or printed out a response as described here: http://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/cards.html ), it seems hard to put these together to form any useful program. This is just like finding a bunch of calculator keys on the floor and asking what was being calculated. But with enough cards, it could calculate a lot of things. I suspect it is not a scrambled program, but just a demo for people to see.
