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  • 1Card reader — A card reader is a data input device that reads data from a card shaped storage medium. Historically, paper or cardboard punched cards were used throughout the first several decades of the computer industry to store information and write programs …

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  • 2Unit 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… …

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  • 3Nintendo e-Reader — The e Reader (カードeリーダー, Kādo Ī Rīdā?, Card e Reader) is a device made by Nintendo for its Game Boy Advance portable video game system. It was first released in Japan in December 2001, with a North American release following in September 2002. It… …

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  • 4Smart card — This article is regarding smart cards that use electrical connectors to transmit data. For smart cards that use radio see contactless smart card Contact type smart cards may have many different contact pad layouts, such as these SIMs A smart card …

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  • 5Magnetic stripe card — An example of the reverse side of a typical credit card: Green circle #1 labels the Magnetic stripe A magnetic stripe card is a type of card capable of storing data by modifying the magnetism of tiny iron based magnetic particles on a band of… …

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  • 6Secure Digital card — Infobox media name = Secure Digital logo = caption = Pair of SD cards type = Memory card encoding = capacity = Standard SD: 8 MB to 4 GB SDHC: 1 GB to 32 GB [pricerunner.com 2008 08 27] (theoretical max for SDHC is 2 TB.) read = write = standard …

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  • 7Punched 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… …

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  • 8Memory card — Miniaturization is evident in memory card creation; over time, the physical card sizes grow smaller. A memory card or flash card is an electronic flash memory data storage device used for storing digital information. They are commonly used in… …

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  • 9Computer 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… …

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  • 10Contactless smart card — This article is regarding smart cards that use radio to transmit data. For smart cards that use electrical conductors see smart card. Size comparison of chip (compared to a Canadian one cent piece) A contactless smart card is any pocket sized… …

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