The recent Supercon 6 badge, if you haven’t seen it, was an old-fashioned type computer ... program drum There were three stations in the 029: The rightmost held a card waiting to be punched.

Since the beginning of the digital era, users have needed ... which read and ran the program. For output, the computer punched encoded results onto blank punch cards, which operators then had ...

completely program-controlled, mechanical digital computer with no human intervention. It was designed to be programmed using punched cards, something that was one of its most ground-breaking ...

Since the launch of Computer Weekly in 1966 ... the spinning hard drive had already been invented for data, but punched cards and paper tape were used to run programs and store data in most ...