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punched card

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noun

  1. Sometimes shortened to: card.  (formerly) a card on which data can be coded in the form of punched holes. In computing, there were usually 80 columns and 12 rows, each column containing a pattern of holes representing one character

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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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