card punch
Britishnoun
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a device, no longer widely used, controlled by a computer, for transferring information from the central processing unit onto punched cards Compare card reader
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another name for key punch
Example Sentences
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To make the balloon card, punch or cut circles and glue them down.
From New York Times
"We had a card punch in our office. I would punch the cards. I would take the cards over to the building that had the computer and they had people who would run the programme."
From BBC
Legislators swipe a plastic ID card, punch a button, and watch a small “N” or “Y” appear alongside their name on the House’s back wall.
From Washington Post
You slide in a card, punch a few digits, and out spurts cash.
From Time Magazine Archive
IBM card punch type 024, printing card punch type 026.
From Project Gutenberg
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