punched column
1Punched 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… …
2Computer 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… …
3card column — noun (computing; obsolete) One of the eighty or ninety columns of a punched card with lines parallel to the short edge of the card (cf ↑card row) • • • Main Entry: ↑card …
4Unit record equipment — Before the advent of electronic computers, data processing was performed using electromechanical devices called unit record equipment, electric accounting machines (EAM) or tabulating machines. Unit record machines were as ubiquitous in industry… …
5Key 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… …
6Plugboard — This article is about plugboards, or control panels, in unit record machines, cypher machines and early computers. For other uses, see plug board (disambiguation). IBM 402 Accounting Machine control panel[1] wiring. This board was labeled profit… …
7International Computers and Tabulators — or ICT was formed in 1959 by a merger of the British Tabulating Machine Company (BTM) and Powers Samas. In 1963 it also added the business computer divisions of Ferranti. It exported computers to many countries around the world and went on to… …
8List of The Price Is Right pricing games — Pricing games are featured on the current version of the game show The Price Is Right. The contestant from Contestants Row who bids closest to the price of a prize without going over wins it and has the chance to win additional prizes or cash in… …
9ICT 1301 — The ICT 1301 and its smaller derivative ICT 1300 were early business computers from International Computers and Tabulators. Typical of mid sized machines of the era they used core memory, drum storage and punched cards, but they were unusual in… …
10IBM 80 series Card Sorters — Card Sorters in the IBM 80 series were: *IBM 80 Electric Punched Card Sorting Machine Introduced by IBM in 1925. This sorter was almost twice the speed of the older Hollerith 70 vertical sorter and used an entirely new magnetically operated… …
