[digitaltrails] wanted the data on a few old IBM 80-column punch cards he had lying around, but didn’t have decades old computer hardware in his garage. He decided to build his own out of LEGO, an ...

Earlier this month, IBM celebrated its 100th birthday. It wasn't called IBM back in 1911, though: It was lumbered with the high-tech-for-its-time name of Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, the ...

Before the Commodore 64, the IBM PC, and even the Apple I, most computers took input data from a type of non-magnetic storage medium that is rarely used today: the punched card. These pieces of ...