For much of the 20th century, data was entered into data processing machines using punched cards. This is a machine for punching such cards manufactured by International Business Machines Corporation ...

For the first half of the 20th century, much data was entered into data processing machines using punched cards. This machine for punching such cards was manufactured by International Business ...

The punch card, the first way to program a machine, turned 300 this year. The first semi-automatic loom was created in Lyon as early as 1725. To commemorate this, we have taken the liberty of updating ...

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 ...

It’s always made sense for IBM to have a presence in the San Francisco Bay Area–and now it’s opening a major Watson center right downtown. IBM employees on an assembly line for the Ramac, the first ...

Herman Hollerith, then a statistician with the US bureau of the Census formed a company called the Tabulating Machine Co. in 1896 to commercialize technology he had developed to help with the counting ...

[digitaltrails] wanted the data on a few old IBM 80-column punch cards he had lying around, but didn’t have decades old computer hardware in his garage. He decided to build his own out of LEGO, an ...