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 ...

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.

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 ...

[John Graham-Cumming] might not be the first person to thumb through an old book and find an IBM punched card inside. But he might be the first to actually track down the origin of the cards.