Keypunch

Up until that time all changes made to the immense data base that we maintained on personnel and equipment was done via 'keypunch' cards. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the 1988 Democratic primary in Delaware, a keypunch error gave Samuel Beard 2,800 votes more than he received in a race against incumbent Lt. Gov. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I show them replica of original Hollerith machine for census, then early IBM keypunch, and a few punch cards, noting that I used to punch whole decks of them. ❋ EliRabett (2010)

The Senate still files its campaign finance reports on paper (!), forcing the FEC to re-keypunch their data and delaying vital disclosure of who is funding their campaigns by more months. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The quick progression after I left home at 16 was keypunch operator to computer programmer to waitress to barmaid to go-go dancer to streetwalker to call girl to PORN STAR! ❋ Unknown (2010)

Ms. Crupi, 49, who joined the company in 1983 as a keypunch operator, had primary responsibility for a bank account that allegedly served as the main Ponzi scheme fund Mr. Madoff ' s firms used to receive investors ' money and pay redemptions. ❋ Chad Bray (2010)

Which means fewer tellers to cash checks, fewer keypunch clerks to process them and fewer couriers to move bags of checks around. ❋ Unknown (2008)

After years of dismal productivity performance, banks, insurers and stockbrokers have finally figured out how to put computers to work efficiently, making thousands of filing clerks and keypunch operators redundant. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I soon saw that just as keypunch operation went from being a valuable skill to total obsolescence, so would manufacturing take on great upheavals in job changes. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Making corrections using a hand-me-down keypunch machine in the back room of the Eastern High School Physics lab. ❋ William "Papa" Meloney (2006)

When I compared that data with the valid station data, I realized that the data was mis-entered by a keypunch operator and actually was valid. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I like reading your stuff, most particularly Whatever, and I can assure you that it is very difficult to keypunch with broken fingers. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Basically Beth was supposed to make keypunch operators and low level clerks think they'd be fired if they didn't contribute enough. ❋ Sfmike (2006)

Unfortunately, I doubt we can recreate the experience of using an 029 keypunch... ❋ Vakkotaur (2005)

I was in with the nerds, folks who preferred spending Saturday nights in the basement computer lab because that's when you could run those huge programs that took boxes and boxes of keypunch cards and get results back in less than half a day. ❋ Grouse (2005)

The prison had been designed with the belief that vocational training would convert heroin dealers to keypunch operators and since nobody had any better ideas, still operated on the assumption. ❋ Scottoline, Lisa (2001)

St. Aug and did not do well, came out and worked for four or five years, and when I decided, I was a keypunch operator at Wachovia Bank. ❋ Unknown (1999)

Ray it´s a keypuncher, you need to instructo him exactly what to do, other wise he´ll [screw up], remember him to close [the gate] after throwing [the trash] away. ❋ CocoRules (2017)