data tape punch
1tape punch — noun : a device for recording symbols in tape by perforating individual holes or combinations of holes * * * tape punch noun (computing) A device once used for encoding data by punching holes in paper tape • • • Main Entry: ↑tape …
2punch — 1. v. & n. v. & tr. 1 strike bluntly, esp. with a closed fist. 2 prod or poke with a blunt object. 3 a pierce a hole in (metal, paper, a ticket, etc.) as or with a punch. b pierce (a hole) by punching. 4 US drive (cattle) by prodding with a stick …
3tape drive — Drive Drive (dr[imac]v), n. 1. The act of driving; a trip or an excursion in a carriage, as for exercise or pleasure; distinguished from a ride taken on horseback. [1913 Webster] 2. A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for… …
4Punched tape — Five hole and eight hole punched paper tape Punched tape or paper tape is an obsolete form of data storage, consisting of a long strip of paper in which holes are punched to store data. It was widely used during much of the twentieth century for… …
5punched tape — noun Etymology: from past participle of punch (I) : paper tape punched with holes in such a way as to convey information * * * Computers. See paper tape. [1880 85] * * * punched tape noun (computing) Same as ↑ …
6Control Data Corporation — (CDC) was a supercomputer firm. For most of the 1960s, it built the fastest computers in the world by far, only losing that crown in the 1970s after Seymour Cray left the company to found Cray Research, Inc. (CRI). CDC was one of the nine major… …
7Anime Punch! — Infobox Anime convention name = Armageddicon caption = status = Active venue = location = Columbus, Ohio country = United States first = 2005 attendance = 1,337 in 2008 website = http://www.animepunch.orgAnime Punch! is an organization that began …
8Computer programming in the punch card era — From the invention of computer programming languages into the 1980s, many if not most computer programmers created, edited and stored their programs on punch cards. The practice was nearly universal with IBM computers in the era. In many… …
9List of IBM products — The following is a list of notable products from the International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation and its predecessor corporations, beginning in the 1890s, and spanning punched card machinery, time clocks, and typewriters, via mainframe… …
10History of computing hardware — Computing hardware is a platform for information processing (block diagram) The history of computing hardware is the record of the ongoing effort to make computer hardware faster, cheaper, and capable of storing more data. Computing hardware… …
