BBC - A History of the World - Object : computer program on punched cardsThis is the 1st computer program,the 1st piece of software,that I wrote. Written in Fortran during a programming course ...

I’m not just programing software as the only work product—I’m programming digital everything, by just talking. This is what I mean when I say the compiler is having its punch card moment.

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 ...

The 10,000-line Fortran program he had created was stored on thousands of punch cards.

Punch cards provided precise and repeatable instructions for machine tools, with each hole representing a specific command. Almost overnight, machining processes became automated and repeatable. The ...

Those old enough to have encountered punch cards in their lifetime are probably glad to be rid of their extremely low data density and the propensity of tall stacks to tip over. But obsolete as ...