Bosque Bill on Nostr: Card Sorter and Card Punch Machines Computer History Museum, Mt. View, CA The first ...
Card Sorter and Card Punch Machines
Computer History Museum, Mt. View, CA
The first information processing machine I ever used was a card sorter as a statistical analysis tool in a college political science course. (My major for my first undergraduate degree LOL)
Each card had demographic data for one entity across a range of subjects. We would go through many sorts, each time continuing with one selected output to attempt to make correlations within the data set.
To the left is a card punch machine where one encodes the card with data. Didn't use that then, but used one some years later to encode my first Fortran IV program to run on an IBM 1401—the first actual computer I ever used.
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Computer History Museum, Mt. View, CA
The first information processing machine I ever used was a card sorter as a statistical analysis tool in a college political science course. (My major for my first undergraduate degree LOL)
Each card had demographic data for one entity across a range of subjects. We would go through many sorts, each time continuing with one selected output to attempt to make correlations within the data set.
To the left is a card punch machine where one encodes the card with data. Didn't use that then, but used one some years later to encode my first Fortran IV program to run on an IBM 1401—the first actual computer I ever used.
#ThrowbackThursday #photo #computer #history #technology