in 1881
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Punch cards store data. That data can then be analysed by feeding the cards into a punch card reader.
Punch cards were used by computer programmers back when computers used punch cards. The cards were used to tell the computer what to do. Programmers had a machine that they used to write computer programs and it would punch the holes in the cards. It took a lot of cards just to write on program.
information. the position of the punch determines the value
If it's punch cards, it's IBM. They are the one's who "made it big" in the early computer days. But they were actually invented in 1881 by Herman Hollerith, an American engineer.
Herman Hollerith invented punch cards and used them with his tabulators in the Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation which later merged with two other companies to form IBM
punch cards
Punch cards.
1834Charles Babbage begins build his "Analytical Engine", precursor to the computer. It uses read-only memory in the form of punch cards.
The American Licorice Company invented Sour Punch straws in the... i think 1990's.
It was invented in 1801.
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