The recent Supercon 6 badge, if you haven’t seen it, was an old-fashioned type computer with a blinky ... What most people did do, however, was punch cards. Technically, Hollerith cards ...

Created by Charles Babbage, the Analytical Engine was a general-purpose, completely program-controlled, mechanical digital ...

[John Graham-Cumming] might not be the first person to thumb ... on them that belonged to a computer school at the time. A Hackaday card, thanks to the online card punch It is hard to remember ...

A later drawing was animated, featuring a hula girl whose skirt would fall off, creating what one veteran jokingly calls “the first pornographic show... As close as it gets. It was so innocent.” ...

A hundred years later, computer pioneer Charles Babbage ... unlike those in Bouchon's loom--to get the job done. Punched cards were the "first automated storage device," and they let us quantify ...

Extremely critical tasks like the core programming of NASA’s Apollo Project’s Guidance Computer ... punch the cards again in a verifier machine that compared this new set with the first ...

As we glide our fingers over the screens of our smartphones and tablets, or chatter to our computer instead ... the keypunch and punch cards were the first widely adopted technologies that allowed ...

Jacquard looms automated the weaving of complex textiles such as brocade, matelasse and damask, allowing patterns that were ...

By 1834 he had moved on to design his Analytical Engine, the first general purpose computer, which used punch cards for input and output. This machine also lacked financing and was never built.

A punched card was once the basis for digital information used for computer programs and data storage. They were widely used throughout the first half of the 20th century in processing machines to ...