The punch card cabinets are fantastic for storing tools, parts, or projects. Blank cards are great for notes or bookmarks. Of course, those two applications are fading in relevance too.

Technically, Hollerith cards, although we mostly just called them cards, punched cards, or IBM cards. There were a lot of different machines you could use to punch cards, but none were as popular ...

Rise of the punched card. After his census success, Hollerith went into business selling this technology.The company he founded, the Tabulating Machine Company, would, after he retired, become ...

Erroneous cards are then retyped on a card punch. If the hole and the key typed match, the card advances one column. A mark stamped on the base of the machine toward the left reads: 05111993-A0. IBM ...

Punch cards remained the primary means of data access for mechanical data sorters and digital computers alike until the mid-1970s, when newer technologies came along such as magnetic tape.

This is one such punch card, used to advertise tabulating machines. Text on the card reads in part: What the Punched Hole will do. (/) The IBM card demonstrates the first step (/) in IBM accounting.

Bob Brockman holds a replica of a Fortran punch card. Today, he uses software on his PC to quickly generate models of materials and structures. Celebrating 50 years at UDRI and the technology changes ...