About thirty years ago [H. P. Friedrichs] pulled off a hack that greatly improved the process of programming with punch cards. At the time, his school had just two IBM 029 keypunch machines.

Those old enough to have encountered punch cards in their lifetime are probably glad to be rid of their extremely low data density and the propensity of tall stacks to tip over. But obsolete as ...

In the 1960s, punch cards became input to a computer rather than to machines that tabulated the cards directly. Also in the 1960s, data entry began migrating from keyboard-to-card to keyboard-to ...

Punch cards have been used to control the operation of machinery from the early nineteenth century, when the Frenchman Joseph Marie Jacquard patented an attachment to a loom in which a series of ...

The cards are typically about the size of the old computer punch cards, but they can be any size that works for you. We also recommend that they be brightly colored so that they are easy to spot as ...

The original card invented by Mr Goodfellow was credit card sized and resembled a computer punch-card However, it is Mr Goodfellow's plastic card and PIN which became the forerunner of the system ...

A punch-card data entry machine. A deck of blank cards was placed into a hopper, and, upon operator command, the machine fed one card to a punch station. As characters were typed, a series of dies ...

Babbage's next idea is the Analytical Engine - a mechanical computer that can solve any mathematical problem. It uses punch-cards similar to those used by the Jacquard loom and can perform simple ...

By 1834 he had moved on to design his Analytical Engine, the first general purpose computer, which used punch cards for input ...

It's amazing that they're still communicating with it at all. At the very beginning, we used computer punch cards. The data was on magnetic tapes, and we would print out line-plots on reels of paper.

Election workers count punch-card ballots on election night Nov. 4, 1986. At that time the county computer center was on the fourth floor of the old courthouse, the former jail when the building ...