punched card

noun

(formerly) a card on which data can be coded in the form of punched holes. In computing, there were usually 80 columns and 12 rows, each column containing a pattern of holes representing one character Sometimes shortened tocard

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MacIntosh jotted down the data Alan gave him and transferred it to a punched card.

The survey-ship put its findings on a punched card, six inches by eight, and went hastily on in search of something better.

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