The pink ballot cards were examined by teams of four inspectors seated facing one another and calling out chad numbers as though they were playing an odd game of doubles Battleship. As McCormack had ...

From the early 20th century into the 1970s, Americans used punched cards to enter data onto tabulating equipment and then electronic computers. This early key-operated punch is based on patents of the ...

We think of punched cards as old-fashioned, but still squarely part of the computer age. Turns out, cards were in use way before they got conscripted by computers. Jacquard looms are one famous ...