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A lace card from the early 1970s. A lace card (also called a whoopee card, ventilator card, flyswatter card, or IBM doily [citation needed]) is a punched card with all holes punched. 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 ...
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 computer card punches and ...
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 .
IBM 080 Card Sorter IBM 082 Card Sorter. A punched card sorter is a machine for sorting decks of punched cards. Sorting was a major activity in most facilities that processed data on punched cards using unit record equipment. The work flow of many processes required decks of cards to be put into some specific order as determined by the data ...
Others in the series included the IBM 513 & IBM 514 Reproducing Punch. The 519, which was "state of the art for the time", [1] could: reproduce all or parts of the information on a set of cards "gangpunch" - copy information from a master card into the following detail cards; print up to eight digits on the end of a card; compare two decks of cards
The series centers around a large Mexican-American family living in the neighboring Los Angeles town of Hacienda Hills. Told through the diary of eccentric 9-year-old Tater Ramirez-Humphrey, the series centers on her as she discovers the "it factor" that makes her special alongside her cousins, consisting of Cousin Bud, Big Nacho, Lita, Tere, Tabi, Toñita, Scooter, Lot Lot, Gordita, Nachito ...
There are 80 contacts, one for each column on a standard IBM punched card. Input hopper for the IBM 1402's card punch Cables entering the back of the IBM 1402. The IBM 1402 was a high-speed card reader/punch introduced on October 5, 1959 as a peripheral input/output device for the IBM 1401 computer.
The first combination of card punch and typewriter, permitting selected text to be typed and punched, was developed by the Powers company in 1925. [23] The IBM 824 Typewriter Card Punch was an IBM 024 where the 024 keyboard was replaced by an IBM electric typewriter. [24] Similarly, the IBM 826 used an IBM 026 Keypunch. [25]