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Treasures of a time when boundaries blurred between sport theater and spectacle are on view at Houghton Library.
[John Graham-Cumming] might not be the first person to thumb through an old book and find an IBM punched card inside. But he might be the first to actually track down the origin of the cards. Admit… ...
Grizzled veterans of the computing industry will relate stories of submitting projects on stacks of punched cards, something those of us who stored their 8-bit works on audio cassettes could only i… ...
This key-driven, manual verifier has 15 black rubber keys. Twelve are for the 12 columns on a punch card. These are labeled from 0 to 9, X, and blank. Two other keys move the card one space, and the ...
Want to keep track of your goals? Make one of these viral "punch cards" that TikTok users are making to stick to their good habits.
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 ...
While paper tape and punch cards are long-lasting and can be read by enterprising enthusiasts of today, modern densely packed SSDs and spinning disks might present more of a challenge for the ...
This adorable DIY punch card activity, which I discovered on Instagrammer Emilia Marie's (@emiliamariehome) feed, is a great way to create an easy plan to stay motivated. Plus, it's a fun craft to ...
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 ...
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.