Hollerith's machine had a long, illustrious history. When computers were widely adopted in the 1950s and 1960s, data was entered in the computers with decks of punched cards. This continued into ...

Technically, Hollerith cards, although we mostly just called them cards, punched cards, or IBM cards. There were a lot of different machines you could use to punch cards, but none were as popular ...

Also called "punched" cards, each of the 80 or 96 columns held one character. The holes were punched by a human operator at a keypunch machine or on a stand-alone card reproducer. Punch cards were ...

Technically, Hollerith cards, although we mostly just called them cards, punched cards, or IBM cards. There were a lot of different machines you ... which the operator, of course, was sure not ...

Developed by Herman Hollerith, a Census Bureau statistician, the machine was first used to count ... steps used to count the 1890 census. See punch card and CTR. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL ...