[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.

P. Friedrichs] pulled off a hack that greatly improved the process of programming with punch cards. At the time, his school had just two IBM 029 keypunch machines. One of them is shown in the ...

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

The IBM 350, the world's first hard disk, was released in 1956. As the RAMAC computer's memory, it had space for 3.75 ...

The Virtual Keypunch is the work of N. Landsteiner-and startlingly complete in detail and authenticity. You'll be relieved to gear that IBM/360 Column Binary Format is fully supported. Type and ...

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 ...

(1) See loyalty punch card. (2) An early storage medium made of thin cardboard stock that held data as patterns of punched holes. Also called "punched" cards, each of the 80 or 96 columns held one ...

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 ...

Founded before World War I, IBM became the industry leader in pretty much every market it entered, from early punch-card tabulating systems to electric typewriters to mainframe and personal computers.