The card reader doesn’t have a computer — at least, we don’t think it did. ... 12 thoughts on “ Your 1958 Punch Card Machine Tested Tubes ” Ken says: June 15, ...

The holes were punched by a human operator at a keypunch machine or on a stand-alone card reproducer. Punch cards were fed into computers by card readers. From 1890 Until the mid-1980s ...

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.

The card reader that [Ken] ... This was in the 80’s! I got the honor of being the go to guy for jam clearing and machine maintenance on the punch card entry machines.

In 1889, a mechanical engineer named Herman Hollerith persuaded the United States government to use machine‑readable paper punch cards and electric counting machines to conduct the national ...

A post on Bluesky by Helen Day- who collects the art from vintage Ladybird books caught my attention. From How it Works: The Computer, 1971. Art by BH ...

Diane Maddux, a deputy San Luis Obispo County clerk, demonstrates new punch card voting machine on Aug. 27, 1975. The Diamond International system replaced old Shoup Voting Machines that came into ...