[John Graham-Cumming] might not be the first person to thumb through an old book and find an IBM punched card inside. But he might be the first to actually track down the origin of the cards.

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 ...

Subscribe to TheStreet's free daily newsletter 💰💵 The name changed to IBM in 1924 and the company soon became the leading ...

All input was on punch cards, and all output was printed or punched into blank cards. There was no display screen. In 1960, IBM introduced the larger 1410 with 80KB of memory, which also ran 1401 ...

But in the early ’50s, when computers made by Remington-Rand began replacing IBM punch-card machines. IBM rushed into building computers and quickly took over most of the market. Lured by IBM ...