Punching Cards

PunchingCards: operating an IBM key punch machine, usually in a room full of other people doing the same thing at all hours of the day and night. The HollerithPunchCards in question were the standard do not fold-spindle-or-mutilate design. The punching cut holes in HermanHollerith?'s code whose meanings were deciphered when light passed through them in a CardReader?. --GeorgeBrower

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