But then, of course, they needed a punch card reader, so they made one of those too. All with stuff lying around the shop. The Silhouette Portrait paper cutter is meant for scrapbooking ...

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. Punch cards were synonymous with data ...

Considering you just can’t go down to Fry’s and buy an IBM 80-column punch card reader, we’re loving [digitatrails]’ clever way of getting data off an otherwise unreadable storage medium.

A punch-card data entry machine. A deck of blank cards was placed into a hopper, and, upon operator command, the machine fed one card to a punch station. As characters were typed, a series of dies ...