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So if you had a card with a punch over the “1” followed by a punched out “5” in the next column and a “0” in the column after that, you were looking at 150. No punches, of course, was ...
But punched cards are much older than that, and [Nichole Misako Nomura] talks about how the original use was to run looms and knitting machines and — thanks the Internet Archive — you can ...
In addition to canceling fireworks, the sheriff’s office said Ski Beach, Incline Beach and the boat ramp are closed until ...
The beauty of the punch card is that it can be used for so many different types of goals. In @emiliamariehome’s TikTok, one of her friends used their card as motivation to take four photography ...
Holroyd also works with punched cards, which he noted can last indefinitely in the right conditions. "The main challenge," he said, "is to avoid dropping a card deck and mixing up all the cards." ...
Your first ever punch card (vintage!), from the town in which you grew up. You checked, and its online store no longer offers the “10% off electronics or one free iPod Shuffle” that the card ...
Punch cards have been used to control the operation of machinery from the early nineteenth century, when the Frenchman Joseph Marie Jacquard patented an attachment to a loom in which a series of ...
Big Blue’s latest reinvention toward hybrid-cloud, AI, and quantum computing is no sideshow—it is a reminder that few tech titans survive a century without learning how to pivot, listen, and build for ...
There’ve been a flurry of stories written recently about NYPD officer Matthew Bianchi for a peculiar reason: he tried to equitably enforce the law, an anomaly in the department.
Punch card machines, so widely-criticized during the recent presidential balloting in Florida, are used by some 30% of U.S. counties, cities and townships.