Also in the 1960s, data entry began migrating from keyboard-to-card to keyboard-to-magnetic tape for computer input, and slowly but surely punch cards died out, although some companies still used ...

It was designed to be programmed using punched cards, something that was one of its most ground-breaking features. The Analytical Engine was intended to be large enough to contain 1,000 50-d ...

It started with a cheap, punch-card programmable manual music box. Thirty-one hobby servos later, it ended as an automated MIDI music box, with a short pit stop as a keyboard-driven MIDI device ...

The ENIAC, among other early electronic computers, used Hollerith punched cards as both input and output. To write a program, an operator typed on a typewriter-like machine that encoded the ...

The mainframe years: Punch card data input with table sized key punches As we glide our fingers over the screens of our smartphones and tablets, or chatter to our computer instead of typing at it ...