The punched card, a paper instrument invented 300 years ago to automate looms, helped create a technology that most of us today can’t live without: computers. A new Houghton Library exhibition — “The ...
Thomas Watson Jr. bet billions on IBM’s shift from punched cards to electronic computing, transforming the company through the System/360 and a $5-billion investment.
If you mention punch cards to most people, they’ll think of voting. If you mention it to most older computer people, they’ll think of punching programs for big computers on cards. But punched cards ...
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