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.

I am still writing software 43 years later, but the computer systems I am using now are very different, despite still being based on the same concepts.Then I punched my program onto cards ...

It’s easy to wax nostalgic about old technology–to remember fondly our first Apple IIe or marvel at the old mainframes that ran on punched cards. But no one in their right mind would use those ...

Even today, punched cards live on in the automation world, where it’s still an efficient way of programming various robots and other equipment. Another place that it lives on is in voting ...

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 ...

In the video above, discover how punched cards were proposed as a way to program 19th Century ‘computers’. When we interact with computers today, we type into keyboards or press on screens.

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 ...

In the late '60s, with unwieldy punched cards and magnetic tape still the de facto standard for loading data into a computer, IBM set about inventing a portable, cheap-to-produce, and reliable ...