punched card
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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That technology was the punched card, which ushered in the digital revolution, ultimately giving rise to computers and the internet.
From Seattle Times ● May 27, 2022
NIC LEWIS: So the lab brought in a collection of IBM punched card accounting machines.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 7, 2022
His task was to make the punched card reader for the machine work and to write technical manuals describing how to operate it.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2017
A Law Research Service law yer translates the inquiry into a few index words or phrases, puts the information on a punched card and feeds it into the computer.
From Time Magazine Archive
IBM electric punched card accounting machines, customer engineering annual of instruction, automatic reproducing punch type 513.
From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1974 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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