0 a machine for recording information from punch cards (= cards with holes in patterns that represent information):
Herman Hollerith built his first mechanical tabulator in the 1880s.
We will reset the tabulator to zero.
She worked in the general admin office, operating a tabulator which, in pre-computer days, processed the information stored on punch-cards.
Information about tabulators, most of which are hired, cannot be provided without disproportionate expense.
Indeed, we already rent computers, tabulators and duplicating machines, boot and shoe machinery, and so on.
This was a big step forward from tabulators and number crunching and it opened up the way to commercial application, which is so very important to us these days.
An electronic calculator with delay-line memory, programmed by a connection panel, that was connected to a tabulator or card reader-punch.
The first tabulator with an automatic card feed and control panel.
