The recent Supercon 6 badge, if you haven’t seen it, was an old-fashioned type computer ... program drum There were three stations in the 029: The rightmost held a card waiting to be punched.

In the 1960s, punch cards became input to a computer rather than to machines that tabulated the cards directly. Also in the 1960s, data entry began migrating from keyboard-to-card to keyboard-to ...

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 ...

When we talk about a “computer” today ... Designed to interface with a punch card machine from French manufacturer Bull, it contained several hundred vacuum tubes and could be used to add ...