keypunch
/ˈkiːpʌntʃ/
verb
- To enter data by punching holes in cards using a keypunch machine.
- They used to keypunch information for census records.
- She learned to keypunch data for the company's payroll system.
- The clerk had to keypunch hundreds of cards every day.
noun
- A machine with a keyboard used to punch holes in cards to store data, especially in early computers.
- Before floppy disks, data was entered using a keypunch.
- The old keypunch sat in the corner of the computer museum.
- My grandmother worked as a keypunch operator in the 1960s.