punch card

基本解释

Punch card: Card punched with a pattern of holes encoding data for storage and reading.
穿孔卡：依照固定模式打孔，作为代码，贮存和阅读资料的卡。
I am sure that many of you readers still remember the old days when the way to talk to a computer was with a punch card of 80 columns (96 for the IBM System/3).
我敢肯定，读者中的许多人至今还记得使用有 80 栏的穿孔卡片（96 栏的用于 IBM System/3）与计算机交谈的那段过去的日子？
IBM facilitated the administration of the Holocaust with census cards and punch card technology, even after 1941, through full IBM subsidiaries managed from Switzerland.
IBM公司的管理提供便利的大屠杀与普查卡和打卡技术，即使在1941年， IBM公司通过充分的子公司的管理由瑞士。

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Outside the exhibit stands the company's achievement wall -- showing off IBM's humble beginnings as a punch card clock company and ending with Watson.
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(formerly) a card on which data can be coded in the form of punched holes. In computing, there were usually 80 columns and 12 rows, each column containing a pattern of holes representing one character (Sometimes shortened to card)