Programs and data were, at that time, punched onto cards using a keypunch.

My mother worked seven days as a keypunch operator.

Out of high school, I was a keypunch operator.

Original data was usually punched into cards by workers, often women, known as keypunch operators.

"Somebody made a keypunch error transcribing the Army data," he said.

She used to write programs on keypunch cards for mainframes."

In his off hours, he studied English, trained as a keypunch operator and began taking college courses.

He became a keypunch operator and studied computer programming.

This first-generation Type 001 keypunch used 45 columns and round holes.

The later 129 used electronic circuit cards to store simple programs written by the keypunch operator.

The initial request was for a room, a keypunch and two programmers, which came along with six graduate students.

She became enamored shortly finishing high school and taking a job as a keypunch operator.

It was the keypunch, not the computer age and managing data from 200 patients was burden enough.

A keypunch was usually located nearby for quick corrections.

And perhaps that display of experimental data on the screen was made possible in some small degree by the old tedious work at the keypunch.

"We've been running a campaign we call Keypunch.

This made the 059 much quieter than the 056 (which was often louder than the 024 keypunch).

The Type 306-2 provided for verification; the cards were passed through the keypunch a second time and keyed again.

A typical corporate or university computer installation would have a room full of keypunch machines for programmer use.

She estimated it would require $5 million or more "to change from the keypunch to something more modern."

"The fares are going to go up to $1, probably more," said a keypunch operator who would identify herself only as Nancy.

THE dark marks on the linoleum are the remnants of where, some 30 years ago, a noisy keypunch stood.

Two minimum-wage keypunch operators enter names from documents into an eight-year-old computer.

Some early keypunch machines used a keyboard with 12 labeled keys to punch the correct holes in paper cards.

Users could create cards using a desk-sized keypunch with a typewriter-like keyboard.

He took it down to keypunch and explained to one of the girls that she was to transcribe the writing onto punch cards.

All too often they answer an innocent click or keypunch with an enigmatic message or an unexpected rush of unprecedented activity.

Data keypunch operators?