It all started with a conversation about the early days of computing. The next thing he knew, [Tim Jagenberg’s] colleague gave him a stack of punch cards and a challenge.

A stack of punch cards from a landmark study published in 1966, and the legwork to track down the study's participants years later, has yielded the longest analysis of the effects of lipoproteins ...

For a time, punch cards were a dominating force in humanity’s dataome.That’s what I’ve come to call the mass of data humanity creates and carries, other than our genes—everything from the ...

Type and download your personal punch cards - the Web2.0 of "big iron" age! ... Lived a stack, lived a stack I know. Lived a relic of the past in an old punchcard. Cellulose serpent, that is me.

Back before the days of 8 inch floppy disks, storing computer programs was much more primitive than even a stack of punch cards. The earliest general purpose computers used paper tape, a strip of p… ...

It could have a high advertising stack squeezing the news space. ... Warren Groshong wrote this story Aug. 29, 1975, about the new punch-card system. Little voting machine replaces 700-pounder.

THE INFAMOUS Ninth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled Monday that the very "punch card" ballots that were good enough to elect Gray Davis governor in November aren't good ...

IBM Punch Card Stemming from Herman Hollerith's punch card in 1890, punch cards "were" synonymous with data processing for decades. IBM and Sperry Rand were the major providers of equipment.

Batch processing started with punch cards, which were tabulated into instructions for computers. Entire decks, or batches, of cards, would be processed at one time. This system, created by Herman ...