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 ...

The much-maligned punch-card ballot got something on Thursday that many election officials were loath to give it in 2000 — respect. Chad or no chad, increasing concern about the security of electronic ...

In movies and TV shows of the mid-twentieth century, the iconic sight of spinning wheels of magnetic tape became the defining image of high-tech computers. To some degree, this was the result of ...