Gallery: Tech Time Warp of the Week: Relive the Days When Apps Were Cards Punched Full of Holes
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The Hollerith tabulator, the machine that helped spawn IBM.
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A stack of punched cards, the stuff that stored software apps in days gone by.
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A typist punches data into cards.
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A punched card fling system.
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The facade of IBM’s former Aerospace Research Center in Los Angeles County was fashioned after a punched card.
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The rectangles in "Punch Card Park" in Ohio were made to resemble the square holes in IBM cards.
