(1) See loyalty punch card. (2) An early storage medium made of thin cardboard stock that held data as patterns of punched holes. Also called "punched" cards, each of the 80 or 96 columns held one ...

With the rise of computer punch-card accounting and the decline of the clerk’s pen-entry ledger, company comptrollers have relaxed in a new atmosphere of mechanical morality. They have been confident ...

We think of punched cards as old-fashioned, but still squarely part of the computer age. Turns out, cards were in use way before they got conscripted by computers. Jacquard looms are one famous ...

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