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Set of Documents Relating to a 1958 High School Course in Computers, with Punch Cards

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. These materials come from an advanced ...
Hackaday

Your 1958 Punch Card Machine Tested Tubes

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 ...
insider.si.edu

ICT 4-434 Punch Cards Associated with International Computers and Tabulators Limited

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. These two blue eighty-column punch ...
The Atlantic

When Air Defense Ran on Room-Sized Computers and Punch Cards

IBM's SAGE air defense system looks like it belongs in a Cold War-era James Bond film, but this is a real IBM ad from the 1960s, courtesy of the Internet Archive. Stills from the video above For great ...
Gizmodo

Icelandic Musician Creates Album Inspired by a Punch-Card Computer

Lauded Icelandic experimental composer Jóhann Jóhannsson, creator of some of my favorite music to blog to, has released a new album that is a tribute to the IBM 1401 Data Processing System, a gigantic ...