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 ...

[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.

Babbage's next idea is the Analytical Engine - a mechanical computer that can solve any mathematical problem. It uses punch-cards similar to those used by the Jacquard loom and can perform simple ...

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 ...