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 ...

Nearly $3 billion was appropriated under the Help America Vote Act of 2002 for states to upgrade voting machines. But while the act envisioned replacing lever and punch-card machines by 2006, it ...

As characters were typed, a series of dies at the punch station punched the appropriate holes in the selected card column. IBM Keypunch This is the type of IBM keypunch machine used in the 1960s ...