For much of the 20th century, data was entered into data processing machines using punched cards. This is a machine for punching such cards manufactured by International Business Machines Corporation ...

For the first half of the 20th century, much data was entered into data processing machines using punched cards. This machine for punching such cards was manufactured by International Business ...

On June 8, 1887, Herman Hollerith applied for US patent #395,781 for his punch card counting machine, a device considered to be among the foundations of the modern information processing industry and ...

The punch card, the first way to program a machine, turned 300 this year. The first semi-automatic loom was created in Lyon as early as 1725. To commemorate this, we have taken the liberty of updating ...

It’s always made sense for IBM to have a presence in the San Francisco Bay Area–and now it’s opening a major Watson center right downtown. IBM employees on an assembly line for the Ramac, the first ...

UNIVAC ended in 1986. A lot of NASA operations now rely on GNU/Linux (not Red Hat), more so after ISS had issues with ...

Herman Hollerith, then a statistician with the US bureau of the Census formed a company called the Tabulating Machine Co. in 1896 to commercialize technology he had developed to help with the counting ...