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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...