Word: punch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Name Plate on the Door? Nixdorf continues to concentrate on small-think even though other computers are getting bigger and faster. His company is ready to turn out a computer that uses either keyboard, punch cards or tape, as the customer demands; it adds whatever memory capacity is required to do what the purchaser wants. Prices, depending on sophistication, range from $5,000 to $80,000. Nixdorf remains cordial with the big boys by buying printers from IBM and making a data-logging small computer for Siemens...
...like a god" is not casual Elizabethan rhetoric, but the supremely assured recognition that man is the noblest, grandest creature that walks the earth. And what does contemporary U.S. society say of the stature of man-how like a naked ape, how like an irrational id, how like a punch card in a computer? In the vertiginous distance between those views, one can read contemporary U.S. drama's petition in bankruptcy...
...another road, Route 547, and emerged from the valley aimed straight at the heart of Hue. Such passable weather as A Shau ever knows comes in April and May, and three weeks ago, under the tightest secrecy of any allied operation of the war, Operation Delaware was launched to punch into the Communists' craggy lair...
...volunteer for shopping. We buy $20 worth of food for $18 (the merchants earlier had contributed food outright) and on the way back meet a gentleman who seems to belong to Drunken Faculty to Forget the Whole Mess. Someone whom I think of as a friend threatens to punch me because I am carrying food...
Although Tufts' defensive lapses helped Harvard, the Crimson hitters provided their own scoring punch when it counted. Every regular in the starting line-up except Dick Manchester collected at least one hit. Manchester accounted for three...