keypunch
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
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to punch holes in (a punch card or paper tape), using a keypunch.
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to insert (data) into a computer by means of a keypunch.
to keypunch code numbers.
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“She didn’t have $300 for an abortionist and couldn‘t afford to lose her job as a keypunch operator.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 9, 2019
In a large green-carpeted hall jammed with college students, flashing phones and clacking keypunch machines, Columbia University Student John Perrotta took the first call from Wisconsin at precisely 9:07 p.m.
From Time Magazine Archive
The workers will handle the 200 million taxpayer envelopes, opening and sorting the returns into categories, coding and editing them and then laboriously tapping much of the data into an out-of-date keypunch system.
From Time Magazine Archive
It does not have to be sorted at an 18-bin station called a "tingle table," numbered and coded by hand and sent to a keypunch operator who enters the data into IRS computers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Each line of code was imprinted on the card using a keypunch machine.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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