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Punched Card
In computing, an early form of data storage and input, now almost obsolete. The 80-column card widely used in the 1960s and 1970s was a thin card, measuring 190 mm × 84 mm/7.5 in × 3.33 in, holding up to 80 characters of data encoded as small rectangular holes.
The punched card was invented by French textile manufacturer Joseph Marie Jacquard in 1801 to control weaving looms. The first data-processing machine using punched cards was developed by US inventor Herman Hollerith in the 1880s for the US census.
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concept keyboard
digital camera
digital recording
digitizer
document reader
function key
graphics tablet
input device
interactive whiteboard
joystick
keyboard (computing)
light pen
magnetic strip
magnetic-ink character recognition
mark sensing
microphone
mouse (computing)
optical character recognition
optical mark recognition
point-of-sale terminal
punched card
QWERTY
scanner (computing)
sensor
smart card
speech recognition
touch screen
trackball
TWAIN
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