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 exa… ...

HRA Machine Punch Card Puzzle - Old Boys' Club During the Old Boys' Club mission in the game Control you'll have to solve a punch card puzzle to get the HRA Machine working again.

A punch-card data entry machine. A deck of blank cards was placed into a hopper, and, upon operator command, the machine fed one card to a punch station. As characters were typed, a series of dies ...

The continued use of the ""punch card"" machines will needlessly and unlawfully disenfranchise African-American, Latino, and Asian-American voters in counties where such machines are still in use, the ...

To fix the HRA Machine involves picking up five Control punch cards around the lab and matching the cards to the numbered terminals.

On this day in tech history, Herman Hollerith applied for a patent for his punch card counting machine, which would be considered a foundation of modern information processing.

Before IBM, before punch-card computers, before Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, one of the very first machines that could run something like what we now call a "program" was used to make ...

The suit said counties with punch-card machines include 53.4 percent of the state's registered voters -- but over 80 percent of black voters and two- thirds of Latino voters.