Punchcards have their virtues! My family's business used them for inventory management in the 70s. You could print out a deck of cards for the inventory databas

Punchcards have their virtues! My family's business used them for inventory management in the 70s. You could print out a deck of cards for the inventory database, and walk around the warehouse pulling out cards for anything broken or missing, then scan those cards back in to change their category. Now you could do it all on an iPad, but the bandwidth of shuffling cards by hand can be significantly higher than scrolling through a list.