Editing Keypunch (section)

=={{Anchor|To Keypunch}}Keypunch as a verb==
Saying that something would be '''keypunched (to [[wikt:keypunch#Verb|keypunch]] as a verb)''',<ref>"to transfer onto punched cards, paper tape, etc, by using a key punch." {{cite web 
|url=http://englishdictionary.education/en/key-punch
|title=Keypunch (verb)}}</ref> now that the actual device called a keypunch has become obsolete,<ref>{{cite book
|title=How Mechanics Shaped the Modern World
|url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=3319017012 |isbn=978-3319017013
|author=David Allen |date=2013
| publisher=Springer |quote=... thus resulting in the now extinct term ''keypunch.'' This essentially mechanical means of communication remained the primary means of interfacing humans ...}}</ref> refers to [[data entry]].<ref>{{cite book
|title=From Tank Town to High Tech: The Clash of Community and Industrial ...
|url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=088706938X  |isbn=088706938X 
|author=June C. Nash  |date=1989
| publisher=SUNY Press |quote="keypunch it and it would go directly to the computer. It would eliminate the cards"}}</ref>

This use of the verb has replaced the former process, described<ref>{{cite book
|page=29  |title=Computers in Language Research
|url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=9027930090 |isbn=9027930090
|author1=Walter A. Sedelow  |author2=Sally Yeates Sedelow  |date=1983|publisher=Walter de Gruyter
}}</ref>
as "When a key is struck on a keypunch, it prints the character on the top of the card 
but also punches a series of holes that the computer"<ref>actually a [[Card reader]]</ref> 
can interpret."