punch cards

Census Bureau punch cards were used to round up Japanese Americans living on the West Coast at the beginning of World War II.

A user walked up to them, inserted a stack of punch cards or pushed some buttons, and waited for an answer.

With no computer on the site, computer punch cards had to be sent overnight to Paris for processing.

Chad The small round pieces of paper waste produced during the production of punched paper tape and punch cards.

Nineteenth-century English mathematician Charles Babbage planned to use punch cards to program his analytical engine.

and IBM designed the punch cards that were used to systematize the extermination of people by race and class.

So while high school kids had Apple IIs at home, the universities were still using punch cards.

Rod and cylinder injection concentricity easily change the wear caused by increased punch, punch cards or even die within the cylinder.

The idea of using punch cards to instruct and control a system became the basis of computer programming.

It almost came unstuck early on because its bosses were hesitant to abandon punch cards.

Joseph Marie Jacquard used punch cards to automate a weaving loom.

You fed instructions in on paper tape, and loaded the data on punch cards.

Statistician Herman Hollerith used punch cards to tabulate data from the 1890 U. S. census.

The loom is controlled by a system of stiff punch cards and hooks.

In 1850, the Lowell cotton mills are automated with paper punch cards.

When the first interactive terminals were born, I remember a similar question about the life of punch cards.

In the business culture of "Time is money, " punch cards are considered a necessity.

Drag onto the page to add data that is input by means of cards, such as punch cards or mark-sense forms.

An output unit that produces a record of data in the form of hole patterns in punch cards.