key punch

That's where the delay is, not enough people key punching.

She'd been a key punch operator for years before suffering a breakdown and landing on the streets.

And finally he put the entire maneuver onto a program requiring only a single key punched to activate it.

She was so taken with them that she became a volunteer key punch operator, entering data for him.

To process these punched cards he invented the tabulator, and the key punch machine.

In a key punch system, the voter punches a hole in the ballot next to the candidate's name.

Computer equipment used this tube as a relay driver or to run the solenoids in key punch machines.

"There are 1,037 election districts to key punch with only 18 key-punch operators.

The key punch lines: Lewis Black, the host: "Find chemicals.

The keyboard operator types the copy, each key punching holes in a roll of paper tape that will control the separate caster.

"They were busted up pretty bad: coin slots ripped open, backs ripped off, keys punched in.

"After the numbers are key punched," Mrs. Bartels said, "the computer spits out a report.

The authors are very understanding of the 'formula-shy, and they even help by providing the sequence of key punches on a pocket calculator.

For the time being, it remains true that most studies require some form of typing activity (key punching) in the preparation of data for the computer.

IBF world light heavyweight champion Clinton Woods gives his tips on four key punches.

A key punch will open the gate and each house will be connected to a 24-hour monitor for fire and freezing emergencies and ambulance dispatch.

All eyes watched intently as the keys punched out the message on tape: unknown disease has struck all animal life used for food supply on our planet.

News Quiz seen as lively alternative to canceled NBA season, with little risk of Patrick Ewing mishandling a key punch line.

While living on public aid, she collected a half-dozen course certificates, enrolling in programs to make her a bank teller, paralegal, key punch operator, beautician and data processor.

They live mostly but not exclusively in Brooklyn and work mainly in service-sector jobs - as nurses, taxi drivers, child-care providers, key punch operators, messengers and clerks.

Data about the status, location and activities of each of the 5 members of each mission was collected via key punch data cards every 6 minutes during each mission.

The 1956 agreement, predating the explosive growth of the digital computer industry, focused on I.B.M.'s dominance of primitive electronic accounting machines that processed data from key punch cards.

A full screen editor, called O26 (after the IBM model 026 key punch, with the first character made alphabetic due to operating system restrictions), could be run on the operator console.

Advisories-" Other crew hit the seats, low murmur of exchanged information, the passing of duties, briefings in two words and a key punch that logged in: Geran, Hilfy.

In 1901, Herman Hollerith invented and patented the mechanical key punch that was operated by keys, like a typewriter, and that advanced the card automatically to the next column after each punch.