Most people didn’t really use the switches. What most people did do, however, was punch cards. Technically, Hollerith cards, although we mostly just called them cards, punched cards ...

thanks to the online card punch It is hard to remember, but there was a time when cards reigned supreme. Sometimes called Hollerith cards after Herman Hollerith, who introduced the cards to data ...

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 ...

About fourteen years ago pioneer work in the application of the Hollerith electrical punched-card machines was begun in Great Britain, and has led to the regular use of these machines for many ...

Mindful of the cost of renting Hollerith tabulating equipment, the Bureau of the Census hired Russian émigré James Powers to design alternate machines for counting and sorting data from punched cards.

The binary principle embodied in the operation of the loom was inspiration to Charles Babbage and, later, to Herman Hollerith who developed the first commercial punch card equipment. See Hollerith ...

Obit Raymond Bird, who developed the UK's first mass-produced business computer, the Hollerith Electronic Computer (HEC), has ...

The story of large-scale data storage can be traced back to 1890 US census when punch cards – called electromechanical tabulating machines then, were used to record data. Herman Hollerith invented the ...

Developed by Herman Hollerith, a Census Bureau statistician ... Following is the sequence of steps used to count the 1890 census. See punch card and CTR. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ...

Mindful of the cost of renting Hollerith tabulating equipment, the Bureau of the Census hired Russian émigré James Powers to design alternate machines for counting and sorting data from punched cards.

Dr. Raymond Bird, the developer of the Hollerith Electronic Computer (HEC), has passed away at the age of 101.