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punch card

NOUN
  1. a card on which data can be recorded in the form of punched holes

How To Use punch card In A Sentence

  • Back then there were time-share machines that used punch cards to relay information. The Sun
  • A keypunch operator would create holes in paper cards, keying the codes into what were called punch cards. Smithsonian
  • So when we built the Library at SLAC, we put the serials on punch cards.
  • Then, cardboard punch cards were the equivalent of today's computer memories and disks. Globe and Mail
  • Sometimes we'd even use our punch cards. Times, Sunday Times
  • I show them replica of original Hollerith machine for census, then early IBM keypunch, and a few punch cards, noting that I used to punch whole decks of them. Experience
  • The contents of a punch card can be read in and read out readily.
  • Keyboards are banned as harmful and can be found in museums, next to punch cards and spittoons.
  • Programmers had to use paper punch cards to feed information into room-sized computers with no screen interface. Smithsonian
  • I know there were chad problems in Florida in 2000, but wouldn't better maintenance on the punch card apparatus - sharper styli, chad clearing from the holes and ballot verification have been a cheaper and simpler solution? A Call For Dumping Diebold Machines — From A Republican
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