thanks to the online card punch It is hard to remember, but there was a time when cards reigned supreme. Sometimes called Hollerith cards after Herman Hollerith, who introduced the cards to data ...

Most people didn’t really use the switches. What most people did do, however, was punch cards. Technically, Hollerith cards, although we mostly just called them cards, punched cards ...

Hollerith's machine had a long, illustrious history. When computers were widely adopted in the 1950s and 1960s, data was entered in the computers with decks of punched cards. This continued into ...

Mindful of the cost of renting Hollerith tabulating equipment, the Bureau of the Census hired Russian émigré James Powers to design alternate machines for counting and sorting data from punched cards.

The binary principle embodied in the operation of the loom was inspiration to Charles Babbage and, later, to Herman Hollerith who developed the first commercial punch card equipment. See Hollerith ...

Obit Raymond Bird, who developed the UK's first mass-produced business computer, the Hollerith Electronic ... design for punch-card machinery, which he needed to handle input and output.

(1) See loyalty punch card. (2) An early storage medium made of thin cardboard stock that held data as patterns of punched holes. Also called "punched" cards, each of the 80 or 96 columns held one ...

Raymond Bird, the developer of the Hollerith Electronic Computer (HEC), has passed away ... Bird told TNMOC in 2016: "BTM was one of Britain’s largest suppliers of pre-computing punch-card systems and ...