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
Hopefully, the photographs were fed into "Franckenstein," a machine developed by Lab Mechanic Jack Franck, which automatically measured the curvature, angle and length of the star's lines and recorded the data on a punched card.
From Time Magazine Archive
MacIntosh jotted down the data Alan gave him and transferred it to a punched card.
From Starman's Quest by Mack, Stan
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