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… ...

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 ...

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.

[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… ...

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 ...

IBM, Reference Manual IBM 24 Card Punch IBM 26 Printing Card Punch, White Plains, N.Y.: IBM, 1965. The first version of this manual appeared in 1949. IBM, Field Engineering Maintenance Manual 24-Base ...

The other two pink cards are truncated in the upper right corner. A mark near the bottom edge at the left reads: IBM 5081. Location Currently not on view Credit Line Gift of Douglas W. Jones date made ...

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 ...

Earlier this month, IBM celebrated its 100th birthday. It wasn't called IBM back in 1911, though: It was lumbered with the high-tech-for-its-time name of Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company ...