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  2. Punched card input/output - Wikipedia

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    Punched card input/output. A computer punched card reader or just computer card reader is a computer input device used to read computer programs in either source or executable form and data from punched cards. A computer card punch is a computer output device that punches holes in cards. Sometimes computer punch card readers were combined with ...

  3. Punched card - Wikipedia

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    A 12-row/80-column IBM punched card from the mid-twentieth century. A punched card (also punch card[ 1] or punched-card[ 2]) is a piece of card stock that stores digital data using punched holes. Punched cards were once common in data processing and the control of automated machines . Punched cards were widely used in the 20th century, where ...

  4. Computer programming in the punched card era - Wikipedia

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    A punched card is a flexible write-once medium that encodes data, most commonly 80 characters. Groups or "decks" of cards form programs and collections of data. The term is often used interchangeably with punch card, the difference being that an unused card is a "punch card," but once information had been encoded by punching holes in the card ...

  5. Keypunch - Wikipedia

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    Keypunch. IBM 026 Keypunch. Keypunch operators at work at the U.S. Social Security Administration in the 1940s. Operators compiling hydrographic data for navigation charts on punch cards using the IBM Type 016 Electric Duplicating Key Punch, New Orleans, 1938. A keypunch is a device for precisely punching holes into stiff paper cards at ...

  6. Category:Punched card - Wikipedia

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    Punched card. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Punch cards. This category contains articles about punched cards and card handling equipment, including card readers, card punches, and keypunches .

  7. IBM 1442 - Wikipedia

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    IBM 2501 reader. IBM 1442 [1] [2] is a combination IBM card reader and card punch. It reads and punches 80-column IBM-format punched cards [3] and is used on the IBM 1440, the IBM 1130, the IBM 1800 [4] and System/360 [5] and is an option on the IBM System/3. [6]

  8. Control point (orienteering) - Wikipedia

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    A control point ( CP, also control and checkpoint) is a marked waypoint used in orienteering and related sports such as rogaining and adventure racing. It is located in the competition area; marked both on an orienteering map and in the terrain, and described on a control description sheet. The control point must be identifiable on the map and ...

  9. Lace card - Wikipedia

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    Lace card. A lace card from the early 1970s. A lace card is a punched card with all holes punched (also called a whoopee card, ventilator card, flyswatter card, or IBM doily ). They were mainly used as practical jokes to cause disruption in card readers. Card readers tended to jam when a lace card was inserted, as the resulting card had ...

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