1. Have you gotten your punch card for the Bar A Brea

2. (Laughter) And there's actually an instruction on the punch card which says "Ring the bell."

3. And there's actually an instruction on the punch card which says " Ring the bell. " So you can imagine this " Ting! "

4. That punch card system inspired Victorian inventor Charles Babbage to create his analytical engine, the first true programmable computer ever designed.

5. Chad definition, a small paper disk or square formed when a hole is punched in a punch card or paper tape

6. The Hollerith Punch Card, Tabulating Machine and Sorter compiles the results of the 1890 census, in 2 1⁄2 years, rather than the usual 10 year period.

7. Lin was commissioned by Ohio University to design what is known as Input in that institution's Bicentennial Park, a landscape designed to resemble a computer punch card.

8. Backups have been variously done on punch card, floppy disk, optical media like CD, DVD and Blu-Ray, tape, external hard disk, cloud-based storage services, and more

9. In order that the punch card functions as a source of information to guide the computer , it must be capable of spelling out specific messages in some alphabet just as letters of English alphabet make meaning - ful words and words in turn meaningful sentences .

10. This thing over here is one of three punch card readers in here, and this is a program in the Science Museum, just not far from here, created by Charles Babbage, that is sitting there — you can go see it — waiting for the machine to be built.