punch card

or punchcard, punched card

noun

a card having holes punched in specific positions and patterns so as to represent data to be stored or processed mechanically, electrically, or photoelectrically.

First recorded in 1940–45

At the desk he checked in with the shiny punch-card robot, and walked swiftly across the polished floor.

On such work as teaming, where teams are hauling earth along a road for a considerable distance, a punch-card is very valuable.

The paper in the curve-tracer was perfectly blank, and there was no punch-card in the transmitter head.

He jerked the punch-card out of the transmitter and called Vic.

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