Punch cards were fed into computers by card readers ... on separate machines called "sorters," "collators," "reproducers," "calculators" and "accounting machines." Except for the sorter, all ...

This broke the bottleneck caused by students sitting at the punch card terminal. We think that [HPF] sent in this project after seeing the antiquated hardware from that 1970’s calculator.

Many people use punch cards at cafes where it scores them a free latte or at ice cream shops where they’ll get a bonus scoop, but on TikTok people are using punch cards to reach their goals.