Punch cards are used with electro-mechanical timeclocks to record and create a paper trail of employee attendance.
Herman Hollerith received the patent for the mechanical punch card system in 1887. He developed it for use with tabulating machines. However, the manual punch card system originated in 1725, created by Basile Bouchon for producing cloth patterns.
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An electronic punch card system was the first data entry system for computers. Cards were punched with holes according to the information that was stored or directions for the computer. The card was inserted into a card reader and the data was collected. Factories still use a type of punch card system with their manual time cards. Only with the time card, information is printed on the card instead of holes punched.
Punch cards store data. That data can then be analysed by feeding the cards into a punch card reader.
The population of Card Factory is 4,500.
Card Factory was created in 1997.
Do not punch out the time card and report the incident to your immediate supervisor
The Punch Card application works best with the Mac operating system, but the application will work with any operating system. The Punch Card application works with the iTunes program.
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Mr Hollerith was inspired by punchcards he witnessed being used by railroad tickets. When the railroad man would ask for your ticket, he would use a hand punch to punch a hole in the ticket. The hole he punched was punched in your ticket in special places on the card that described the passengers appearance, so tickets could not be faked.
When reporting to work as some factories, a worker would pick up a time card with his employee number on it. He would then insert the card into a slot in a special clock that would punch coded holes into the card. At the end of the work day, he would insert the same card into the clock when he left the factory. The "punched" time card was a record of when he entered and left his work place, and used as the basis for computing his pay. He did not actually "punch" the clock, rather, the clock punched his time card. But the term "punch the clock" was used to mean that someone was checking into or out of the workplace and this meaning was the same even when no time card was actually used. I know about this matter from my short experience working in steel mill in 1959.
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