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I worked in the Machine Accounting room at IBM back in punched-card days. We used to look after all these sophisticated card-sorters, collating machines, tabulators, etc. Punched cards were the driving spirit of our deparment, and we couldn't conceive of a time when they would no longer be used.
An army of "punch girls" (yes, we really did call them that) would punch thousands of card a day. But on a shelf in the corner of the shop, we had a little hand-punch for use in an emergency. It enabled you to punch one card at a time, using obscure combinatations of keys.
We called in Horace.
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