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punch cards

n. (plural of punch card English)

Usage examples of "punch cards".

One day I came across an engineer who had developed a milling machine that could be run by punch cards.

That's part of it certainly, which should not come as a surprise to anyone who has seen the nudnicks counting ballots on TV - holding punch cards to the light, interpreting smudge marks on the ballots, and consulting tarot cards to divine the voters' elusive intent.

I mentioned the Swarthy Man's car and the IBM punch cards in the file.

When I was a kid computers were giant walk-in wardrobes served by a priesthood with punch cards.

As fast as material was obtained, it was relayed to the Interior offices, to the aggregate file banks where the civil population was represented by a series of punch cards, cross-indexed infinitely.

But I might as well have been trying to explain to the computer that puts out their punch cards, for all the good it seemed to do.