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 ...

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 ...

Picture something that looks a bit like an upright piano but instead of keys, it has a slot for cards, about the size of a dollar bill, with holes punched in them. Getty Images Herman Hollerith's ...

One hundred and thirty years ago today (January 8, 1889), Herman Hollerith was granted a patent titled “Art of Compiling Statistics.” The patent described a punched card tabulating machine ...

and tabulating equipment - machinery for preparing and compiling data entered on punched cards. Engineer Herman Hollerith of Washington, D.C. designed the first tabulating systems to help reduce data ...

and tabulating equipment - machinery for preparing and compiling data entered on punched cards. Engineer Herman Hollerith of Washington, D.C. designed the first tabulating systems to help reduce data ...

The inventor of punched cards, which led to the first computers and companies like IBM, was aiming to solve a gnarly problem at the time: data collection for the census.