However, even back in the day, only a few people really programmed a computer ... just called them cards, punched cards, or IBM cards. There were a lot of different machines you could use to ...

Except for the sorter, all other machines were programmed by plugging wires into a board (see plugboard). In the 1960s, punch cards became input to a computer rather than to machines that ...

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 ...

However, even back in the day, only a few people really programmed a computer ... just called them cards, punched cards, or IBM cards. There were a lot of different machines you could use to ...