The Punched Card Detective
[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 …read more Continue reading The Punched Card Detective
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Punched Cards Are In The Cloud, With This Arduino
Grizzled veterans of the computing industry will relate stories of submitting projects on stacks of punched cards, something those of us who stored their 8-bit works on audio cassettes could …read more Continue reading Punched Cards Are In The Cloud, With This Arduino
Ask Hackaday: Are 80 Characters Per Line Still Reasonable In 2020?
Software developers won’t ever run out of subjects to argue and fight about. Some of them can be fundamental to a project — like choice of language or the programming paradigm to begin with. Others seem more of a personal preference at first, but can end up equally fundamental on …read more
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Before Computers: Notched Card Databases
It is hard to remember that practical computers haven’t been around for even a century, yet. Modern computers have been around an even shorter period. Yet somehow people computed tables, kept ledgers, and even wrote books without any help from computers at all. Sometimes they just used brute force but …read more