IBM dates back to June 16, 1911, when three small companies -- which made scales, a tabulating machine, punch-clocks for work and a recording device, among other gadgets -- merged to form the ...

About thirty years ago [H. P. Friedrichs] pulled off a hack that greatly improved the process of programming with punch cards. At the time, his school had just two IBM 029 keypunch machines. One of… ...

[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 LEG… ...

Punched cards continued to feed instructions to computers until the early 1970s. ... IBM applied the UPC, or bar code, to the problem, as well as developing the scanner to read it.

IBM long ago shifted its emphasis from big iron to software and services. With Watson, it’s a key player in the race to use machine-learning technology to train computers to understand big data ...

Ohio created a punched card park. The movie Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate takes its title from a warning often printed on IBM punched cards. And in The Simpsons, Apu codes his entire PhD thesis ...