We think of punched cards as old-fashioned, but still squarely part of the computer age. Turns out, cards were in use way before they got conscripted by computers. Jacquard looms are one famous ...

From the early 20th century into the 1970s, Americans used punched cards to enter data onto tabulating equipment and then electronic computers. This early key-operated punch is based on patents of the ...

The Control punch card puzzle can prove to be a tricky one, which you'll encounter during the Old Boys Club mission and involves trying to get an HRA Machine up and running again. The fix you need to ...

(1) See loyalty punch card. (2) An early storage medium made of thin cardboard stock that held data as patterns of punched holes. Also called "punched" cards, each of the 80 or 96 columns held one ...

On June 8, 1887, Herman Hollerith applied for US patent #395,781 for his punch card counting machine, a device considered to be among the foundations of the modern information processing industry and ...

Nearly a year after the November 2000 elections exposed deep flaws in the country's voting system, changes in election technology are finally getting off the ground. Spurred by new laws and ticking ...