Will your data still be readable in half a century? The State of Storage As storage media grows denser and more complex over time, it's worth remembering that older formats were sometimes far more ...

After previously working out a suitable approach to create a period-correct paper tape reader for his tube-based, MC14500B processor-inspired computer, [David Lovett] over at the Usagi Electric ...

[Scott M. Baker] wants a paper tape punch for his retrocomputer collection. That’s fine with us, we don’t judge. In fact, these electromechanical peripherals from the past have a lot going ...

Punched paper tape was the main form of data input, and the operator console was an electric typewriter. No screens, no cursor. The CPU (central processing unit) ran at a speed of about 0.1MHz.

GOODS & SERVICESElectronic Bill Writer. A transistorized electric typewriter that takes instruction from a punched paper tape and automatically types in all the repetitive material on business ...

In 1882, as a mechanical engineering instructor at MIT, he started to develop his own counting machine using punched paper tape. The position of a punched hole on the tape represented a data point ...

The core technological idea that Hollerith exploited had originated in the early 1700s with punched holes in paper tape that could govern the movement of thread in automated weaving looms.

Brave users of history’s earliest computers programmed those massive electronic beasts through jumper wires plugged into arrays of sockets. With so few computers in existence (none of them ...

Take a good look at this paragraph. You’re reading it thanks to the magic of a computer display, whether it be LCD, CRT, or even a paper printout. Since the beginning of the digital era, users ...