punch-card computer
11punch — 1 verb (T) 1 to hit someone or something hard with your fist (=closed hand): punch sb in/on sth: Gallacher swung round and punched me hard in the stomach. | punch sb/sth: I punched the wall in anger. | punch the air (=to make a movement like a… …
12Computer programming in the punched card era — Punched card from a Fortran program. From the invention of computer programming languages up to the mid 1980s, many if not most computer programmers created, edited and stored their programs on punched cards. The practice was nearly universal… …
13punch — punch1 S3 [pʌntʃ] v [T] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(hit)¦ 2¦(make holes)¦ 3¦(push buttons)¦ 4 punch holes in somebody s argument/idea/plans etc 5 punch the air 6 punch somebody s lights out 7 punch the clock 8¦(cattle)¦ Phrasal verbs …
14punch in — verb register one s arrival at work (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑clock in, ↑clock on • Ant: ↑punch out, ↑clock out (for: ↑clock in) …
15card — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 giving written or electronic information ADJECTIVE ▪ ID, identity, membership ▪ business, calling, visiting (esp. BrE) ▪ appointment …
16Punched card — Overpunch redirects here. For the code, see Signed overpunch. A punched card, punch card, IBM card, or Hollerith card is a piece of stiff paper that contains digital information represented by the presence or absence of holes in predefined… …
17Key punch — A key punch is a device for entering data into punched cards by precisely punching holes at locations designated by the keys struck by the operator. Early keypunches were manual devices. Later keypunches were mechanized, often resembled a small… …
18Needle card — Needle cards are index cards with text, written by hand or typewriter, that have a line of prepunched holes along one or more sides. By cutting or punching away (notching out) the paper between a hole and the edge of the card, the card is… …
19Strela computer — (ЭВМ Стрела , English: Arrow ) was the first mainframe computer manufactured serially in the Soviet Union since 1953. Strela means arrow .The chief designer was Yuri Bazilevsky (Ю.Я. Базилевский). Among his deputies was Boris Rameyev, chief… …
20List of computer scientists — Expand list|date=August 2008This is a list of well known computer scientists, people who do work in computer science, in particular researchers and authors.Some persons notable as programmers are included here because they work in research as… …
