A punched card (also punch card or punched-card) is a piece of card stock that stores digital data using punched holes. Punched cards were once common...

punched card sorter is a machine for sorting decks of punched cards. Sorting was a major activity in most facilities that processed data on punched cards...

mid-1970s. Punched cards had been in use since the 1890s; their technology was mature and reliable. Card readers and punches developed for punched card machines...

lace card (also called a whoopee card, ventilator card, flyswatter card, or IBM doily[citation needed]) is a punched card with all holes punched. They...

can acquire data from a card via a number of methods, including: optical scanning of printed text or barcodes or holes on punched cards, electrical signals...

programmers created, edited and stored their programs line by line on punch cards. A punched card is a flexible write-once medium that encodes data, most commonly...

read data from punched paper tape and punched that data into cards. The IBM 063 Card-Controlled Tape Punch read punched cards, punching that data into...

event of a dispute. In a jurisdiction using a punched card system, voters choose by removing or "punching out" a perforated chad from the ballot next to...

Punched tape or perforated paper tape is a form of data storage device that consists of a long strip of paper through which small holes are punched. It...

technology of punched cards, Herman Hollerith. In April 1949 the company name was changed to IBM Deutschland. The technology of punched cards dates back...

the fall of 2009. Punched card systems employ a card (or cards) and a small clipboard-sized device for recording votes. Voters punch holes in the cards...

pencil in designated locations on a punched card and then punch holes corresponding to those marks into the card number cards consecutively (an optional...

punched cards contained data to be processed by those machines. For computers equipped with a punched card input/output device the resulting punched cards...

devised a tabulating system that included cards (Hollerith card, later Punched card), a punch for holes in them representing data, a tabulator and a sorter...

employees can "punch in" or "punch out" in the correct place. The employee may be responsible for lining up the correct area of the card to be punched or stamped...

was popular in marginal punched-card systems. Many names, some of them trademarked, have been used for marginal punched-card systems: edge-notched cards...

Herman Hollerith invented data storage on punched cards that could then be read by a machine. To process these punched cards, he invented the tabulator and...

created when holes are made in a paper, card or similar synthetic materials, such as computer punched tape or punched cards. The word "chad" has been used...

each card was beveled, much like Hollerith punched cards. Edge-notched cards, however, were not intended to be read by machines such as IBM card sorters...

The Remington Rand 409, a punched card calculator which was programmed with a plugboard, was designed in 1949.[citation needed] It was sold in two models:...

Multiplying Punch was a unit record machine that could read two numbers from a punched card and punch their product in a blank field on the same card. The factors...

Retrieved 2020-07-02. General Information Manual: An Introduction to IBM Punched Card Data Processing. IBM. p. 1. Janda, Kenneth (1965). Data Processing. Northwestern...

a punched card from a deck, do some calculations based on the wiring of its plugboard, and punch results onto the same card. A separate IBM 521 Card Read/Punch...

IBM 557 Alphabetic Interpreter allowed holes in punched cards to be interpreted and the punched card characters printed on any row or column, selected...

systems card reader/punch IBM 1412: Punched card reader/punch IBM 1442: IBM 1440 and IBM System/360 Card reader/punch IBM 1444: IBM 1240/1440 Punched card reader/punch...

for multi-hole punched paper is with a ring binder. A book-like cover is fitted with retaining rings matching the pattern of the punched holes. The rings...

is named in his honor. Around 1933, Eckert proposed interconnecting punched card tabulating machines from IBM located in Columbia's Rutherford Laboratory...

Card image is a traditional term for a character string, usually 80 characters in length, that was, or could be, contained on a single punched card. IBM...

tabulating machine for punched cards to assist in summarizing information and, later, in accounting. His invention of the punched card tabulating machine...

An aperture card is a type of punched card with a cut-out window into which a chip of microfilm is mounted. Such a card is used for archiving or for making...