punch card

punch card
a) A card that can have holes or notches cut in it, especially one for storing data, that can be sorted according to combinations of holes present or absent.
b) Such a card, the size of a US dollar bill, having 80 columns of 12 rows used in early mainframe computers.
Syn: index card, punched card, Hollerith card

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