An 80-by-10 grid punched into a paper card helped drive us out of the Industrial Age and into the Data Age. ... The whole thought process of writing, testing, and using computer software was, ...

I am still writing software 43 years later, but the computer systems I am using now are very different, despite still being based on the same concepts.Then I punched my program onto cards ...

As the film explains, the origins of the computer punched card can be traced all the way back to the 18th century. That's when a French engineer named Basile Bouchon built a loom that could weave ...

Once debugged, the program was manually transcribed onto punch cards using a stylus to punch out pre-embossed “chads”. These were standard IBM punch cards but were dark brown color and in ...

From blinking lights and punch cards to LCDs and 3D flat panels, we trace the 70-year history of the tech that users rely on to see what a computer is doing. By Benj Edwards Nov 1, 2010 6:00 pm PDT ...

If you mention punch cards to most people, they’ll think of voting. If you mention it to most older computer people, they’ll think of punching programs for big computers on cards. But punched ...

In the video above, discover how punched cards were proposed as a way to program 19th Century ‘computers’. When we interact with computers today, we type into keyboards or press on screens ...

50 Years Of BASIC The programming language, developed five decades ago, didn't require code to be entered on punch cards. It also allowed computer novices to begin programming without a lot of ...