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card punch

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noun

  1. a device, no longer widely used, controlled by a computer, for transferring information from the central processing unit onto punched cards Compare card reader

  2. another name for key punch

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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 • Aug. 2, 2011

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 U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1977 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

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