Word: keypuncher
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...Barbados carries not only vacationers but also an impressive load of paperwork. In order to cut costs on the processing of passenger ticket-coupons collected at its boarding gates, American flies daily an average of 1,100 lbs. of documents to the balmy island. In Barbados, some 500 computer keypunch operators employed by Caribbean Data Services, a subsidiary of the airline, transfer the ticket information to magnetic tape. The electronic data are then beamed by satellite to American's central computer in Tulsa. Despite extra expenses like the cost of transmitting the data by satellite, the overseas operation saves money...
...process them in much the same way as when the first Star Wars movie came out. The workers will handle the 200 million taxpayer envelopes, opening and sorting the returns into categories, coding and editing them and then laboriously tapping much of the data into an out-of-date keypunch system...
...company's computer and sent to the IRS, where it goes directly into the agency's mainframes. The electronic return bypasses time-consuming steps. It does not have to be sorted at an 18-bin station called a "tingle table," numbered and coded by hand and sent to a keypunch operator who enters the data into IRS computers. Instead, the return goes immediately to the point at which it is checked by the computer for mathematical mistakes. After that, the refund is processed. Result: a check usually reaches taxpayers within three weeks -- or two if the filer authorizes a direct...
...Rows of keypunch operators sit in the marble and granite eight-story office of the National Rifle Association in Washington, feeding information into humming computers. Each of the association's 1.8 million members is recorded by zip code, congressional district and past support for the N.R.A. The voting records of Congressmen and Senators, and their answers to an 18-question N.R.A. loyalty test, are also tabulated-and graded from A to F. When there is a battle to be waged, the press of a button can send Mailgrams to loyalists around the country. Within hours, Mail-grams and letters...
...Jackson, a clerical worker. "We tried it like it was told. We couldn't see how he could have come in back of her and gotten shot in the hand. If there was a struggle over the gun, someone else would have been wounded." Added Geneva Tyler, a keypunch operator: "It was a lot of shots. If you're going to commit suicide, you only need one, in the right place...