Hollerith code
English
Picture of a Hollerith card from 1895 Railroad Gazette
Etymology
After Herman Hollerith, who patented machine-readable punch card devices in 1889.
Proper noun
- (computing, historical) A standard code defining the patterns of holes on punch cards that represent various text characters.
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