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A ticket punch (or control nippers) is a hand tool for permanently marking admission tickets and similar items of paper or card stock. It makes a perforation and a corresponding chad . A ticket punch resembles a hole punch , differing in that the ticket punch has a longer jaw (or "reach") and the option of having a distinctive die shape.
Chads from punched cards.Each chad is about 3 mm (1 ⁄ 8 in) long. Votomatic [1] voting machines of the type used in the 2000 election in Florida The chip (chad) receiver from a UNIVAC key punch Pouring chads from a jar at the Computer History Museum Asymmetrical chad produced by a railroad ticket punch
Election workers count punch-card ballots on election night Nov. 4, 1986. At that time the county computer center was on the fourth floor of the old courthouse, the former jail when the building ...
Cards with a particular punch could be treated as master cards causing different behavior. For example, customer master cards could be merged with sorted cards recording individual items purchased. When read by the tabulating machine to create invoices, the billing address and customer number would be printed from the master card, and then ...
A sucker punch (American English), also known as a cheap shot, coward punch, one-punch attack, or king-hit [1] (Australian English), is a punch thrown at the recipient unprovoked and without warning, [2] allowing no time for preparation or defense on their end. The term is generally used in situations where the way in which the punch has been ...
1984: The IBM 029 Card Punch, announced in 1964, was withdrawn from marketing. [69] IBM closed its last punch card manufacturing plant. [70] 2010: A group from the Computer History Museum reported that an IBM 402 Accounting Machine and related punched card equipment was still in operation at a filter manufacturing company in Conroe, Texas. [71]
Thunder top Mavs with barrage of 3-pointers. Tuesday’s nightcap featured two of the NBA’s leading scorers - Luka Dončić and the Dallas Mavericks traveled north to face the Oklahoma City ...
Dec. 4—Marlow is championship bound for the first time since 2006 after they took a 28-16 victory over Eufuala to punch their ticket to the Class 2A State Championship game next week. The first ...