For years I’ve had a crystal clear memory of photographing election workers as they counted punch card ballots. I recalled it in black and white, so that narrowed the search window down to the ...

(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 ...

The much-maligned punch-card ballot got something on Thursday that many election officials were loath to give it in 2000 — respect. Chad or no chad, increasing concern about the security of electronic ...

Punch-card voting may cause more errors on California ballots than other systems, but experts clashed Tuesday over just how serious the problem is. A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Sorting punch cards had mathematical ...

[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 ...

Those old enough to have encountered punch cards in their lifetime are probably glad to be rid of their extremely low data density and the propensity of tall stacks to tip over. But obsolete as they ...

The days of the “buy-10-get-one-free” loyalty punch card are as numbered as the paper punch itself. Mom-and-pop restaurants, convenience stores and pet groomers are joining national programs that ...

For decades, businesses have relied on the punch card as the backbone of their customer reward program. That seemingly ageless loyalty program, however, might not be as timeless as was once thought.

In an optimistic move, you grabbed a loyalty card before the first exercise class you took. Interestingly, no holes have been punched here, because you left the gym during the class’s warmup, when ...