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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.