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 ...

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 - ...

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 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This cream-colored eighty-column ...

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 ...

After World War II, Britain was a hotbed of pioneering computer research. Work done on automatic ways to crack codes and spot enemy aircraft meant it had a skilled cadre of engineers and scientists ...