Punched card. An 80-column punched card of the type most widely used in the 20th century. The size of the card was 7 3⁄8 in × 3 1⁄4 in (187.325 mm × 82.55 mm). This example displays the 1964 EBCDIC character set, which added more special characters to earlier encodings. A punched card, punch card, IBM card, or Hollerith card is a piece of stiff paper that contained either commands for controlling automated machinery or data for data processing applications. Both commands and data were represented by the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions. As of 2012, some voting machines still utilize punched cards to record data.[2] History[edit] Punched cards were first used around 1725 by Basile Bouchon and Jean-Baptiste Falcon (fr) as a more robust form of the perforated paper rolls then in use for controlling textile looms in France. Semen Korsakov was reputedly the first to use the punched cards in informatics for information store and search.
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