Sentence examples for punched card from inspiring English sources
noun
A punch card (especially one that has had holes punched in it).
"Every operation for every person resulted in a punched card.
After all, I.B.M. started out making clocks, scales, punched card tabulators, and cheese slicers ("the world's fastest at the time," he noted).
It is easier, Mr. Bartlett said, for elections officials doing hand counts to decide whether a ballot marked with a pen should be counted than to decide whether a partially punched card should be.
The courts have not been unanimous; some decisions in the South during the 1970's and early 80's held that an incompletely punched card automatically disfranchised the voter.
In another corner of the gallery lurks the infamous voting device that produced the "hanging chads" seen in Florida in the 2000 presidential election, complete with plenty of punched card ballots so you can try your hand at producing a hanging chad yourself.
I personally try every mobile loyalty app that I can, and the only value above the classic punched card is that I don't have to carry the card.
Early forms of auxiliary storage included punched paper tape, punched cards, and magnetic drums.
Yeah, I punched the card!
"A punch card system will make workers come on time".
The electronic tabulating equipment that counts punch card ballots operates by shining light through punched holes in the punch card.
(The punch card system in the district was replaced).
