A HEC 1 computer was recently unearthed in the stores of the Birmingham Museum Trust After World War II, Britain was a hotbed of pioneering computer research. Work done on automatic ways to crack ...

[digitaltrails] wanted the data on a few old IBM 80-column punch cards he had lying around, but didn’t have decades old computer hardware in his garage. He decided to build his own out of LEGO, an ...

We think of punched cards as old-fashioned, but still squarely part of the computer age. Turns out, cards were in use way before they got conscripted by computers. Jacquard looms are one famous ...

Fancy a retro twist to your next Arduino-based project? One Gadget Master has turned an Uno into a punch card-controlled computer, which outputs the results on its serial port. The maker in question - ...

The card reader repaired this time as an accessory of IBM 1401Computer History MuseumThings that were in the collection. The IBM 1401 was a mainframe that was operated to conduct payroll accounting ...

With the rise of computer punch-card accounting and the decline of the clerk’s pen-entry ledger, company comptrollers have relaxed in a new atmosphere of mechanical morality. They have been confident ...

The punch card, the first way to program a machine, turned 300 this year. The first semi-automatic loom was created in Lyon as early as 1725. To commemorate this, we have taken the liberty of updating ...