Computing used to run on punch cards. Great stacks of cards would run middling programs, with data output onto more punched cards in turn. [Nii] has built a machine in this vein, capable of punching ...

[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 for them, ...

In the 1970s, punch cards were used to run programs on room-sized computers. Credit: Madeleine Monroe/C&EN/Shutterstock Imagine a world without technology—no ...