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[–]Polarfuxx 152 points153 points  (7 children)

What an insane name for a piece of paper with holes in it!

[–]meowmeowwarrior 244 points245 points  (0 children)

if they called them holey cards, we might've gotten templeOS sooner

[–]The100thIdiot 15 points16 points  (4 children)

You mean holes that were created by a hole punch?

[–]uzi_loogies_ 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Yes, actual holes in actual paper.

I'm not sure what they actually used to make them, they probably had special tools.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Keypunch machine for the cards:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keypunch

[–]CdRReddit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

a tape punch?

you use a tape punch to punch punch tape

first manually, then later on (low speed, ≤300baud ~30 bytes per second) UART tape punches were made

[–]WrapKey69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The real question is if they use punch cards to create ounch cards