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 ...

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 ...

Although the National Assembly had approved fund for the purchase of the card reader machines in the Appropriation Act of 2014, the then ruling party wanted to use its control of the federal ...