(1) See loyalty punch card. (2) An early storage medium made of thin cardboard stock that held data as patterns of punched holes. Also called "punched" cards, each of the 80 or 96 columns held one ...

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For years I’ve had a crystal clear memory of photographing election workers as they counted punch card ballots. I recalled it in black and white, so that narrowed the search window down to the ...

The much-maligned punch-card ballot got something on Thursday that many election officials were loath to give it in 2000 — respect. Chad or no chad, increasing concern about the security of electronic ...

The days of the “buy-10-get-one-free” loyalty punch card are as numbered as the paper punch itself. Mom-and-pop restaurants, convenience stores and pet groomers are joining national programs that ...

Punch card data input is so 1890 US Census, right? Maybe not, if your goal is to educate kids about binary numbers and how they can encode characters. In which case, this paper clip and metal tape ...

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For decades, businesses have relied on the punch card as the backbone of their customer reward program. That seemingly ageless loyalty program, however, might not be as timeless as was once thought.

A paper card that encourages customers to return to a retail store. The size of a credit card, a loyalty punch card has a series of boxes that are punched or stamped by the cashier at time of purchase ...

Have you ever seen a toy and said “That wants to be a deck”? [Attoparsec] did, when his eyes fell upon the Little Talking Scholar, a punch card driven toy from the 1980s. It’s now a punch card driven ...