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.

IBM is far less powerful today than at the pinnacle of its success, it remains integral to the computer landscape.

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 ...

However, even back in the day, only a few people really programmed a computer with switches ... What most people did do, however, was punch cards. Technically, Hollerith cards, although we ...

The size of a credit card, a loyalty punch card has a series of boxes that are punched or stamped by the cashier at time of purchase. When all the boxes are filled, the customer is entitled to a ...

I am still writing software 43 years later, but the computer systems I am using now are very different, despite still being based on the same concepts.Then I punched my program onto cards ...