Friedrichs] pulled off a hack that greatly improved the process of programming with punch cards ... but [HPF] hatched a plan to put them to task for punch card generation. He built his own ...

Certainly, the models in the series were overwhelmingly what people used to punch cards. For the uninitiated, a card was about the size of an old-fashioned dollar bill — the ones in style when ...

(1) See loyalty punch card. (2) An early storage medium made of thin cardboard stock that held data as patterns of punched holes. Also called "punched" cards, each of the 80 or 96 columns held one ...

A punch-card data entry machine. A deck of blank cards was placed into a hopper, and, upon operator command, the machine fed one card to a punch station. As characters were typed, a series of dies ...