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• lace card n. obs. A punched card with all holes punched (also called a `whoopee card' or `ventilator card').
  Card readers tended to jam when they got to one of these, as the resulting card had too little structural strength to avoid buckling inside the mechanism....
• lace card: n. obs. A {{punched card}} with all holes punched (also called a `whoopee card' or `ventilator card').
  Card readers tended to jam when they got to one of these, as the resulting card had too little structural strength to avoid buckling inside the mechanism....
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