Even with the help of Rachel, my assistant, we soon had a massive backlog of clippings waiting to be unfolded, read, punched and bound.
I handset books of poetry using metal type and a composing stick, and I edited a magazine that switched from waxing and Letraset to punched paper tape (I was always impressed by typesetters who could read punched tapes by eye).
Well, the officers and grandmothers eventually died, and it turned out that young people were not reading Punch -- or anything else.
Tallies may vary because of such things as machine limitations in reading punch cards, confusing or misplaced ballots, and human error in both voting and counting.
If Krzyzewski ever does grow tired of the Evil tag, he could trade it for one that reads Punching Bag by taking the gigantic offer the Nets are reportedly preparing for him.
In 1801, way before any form of a computer existed, his system of reading punched cards to perform certain actions laid part of the ground work for binary code, the foundation of computing as we know it today.
Now, there may be a few people in the world who can look at the punch deck for the executable image" — that is, the program deck in object code — "and read the punch cards and recognize the instructions, but I can't do it.
These results confirmed overwhelmingly that the machines which had read the punch cards had failed to count thousands of citizens' votes for presidential candidates.
Still, brain scans showed that part of the brains' frontal lobes, above the eyes, lighted up as they read the punch line.
