Wilhelm Schickard builds the first mechanical calculator ... Analytical Engine - a mechanical computer that can solve any mathematical problem. It uses punch-cards similar to those used by the ...

The recent Supercon 6 badge, if you haven’t seen it, was an old-fashioned type computer with a blinky ... What most people did do, however, was punch cards. Technically, Hollerith cards ...

A punch-card data entry machine. A deck of blank cards was placed into a hopper, and, upon operator command, the machine fed one card to a punch station. As characters were typed, a series of dies ...

1955: No single machine can claim to be the first computer. However ... worked on developing a machine that stored programs on punched cards, although it was never actually built.