P. Friedrichs] pulled off a hack that greatly improved the process of programming with punch cards. At the time, his school had just two IBM 029 keypunch machines. One of them is shown in the ...

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 ...

These pieces of cardstock held programs, data, and pretty much everything used to run computers in the before-time ... punch card sorter and [Ken Shirriff[‘s eloquent explanation of how these ...

a machine for cutting such cards, and related patent models. In addition, Textiles has coverlets, shawls, and fabric samples woven with such looms. The Englishman Charles Babbage greatly admired ...