Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For years I’ve had a crystal clear memory of photographing election workers as they counted punch card ballots. I recalled it in ...

The postponement of California's recall election because of old punch-card ballots raises pointed questions for many other states, with at least half still using outmoded equipment that critics say ...

We think of punched cards as old-fashioned, but still squarely part of the computer age. Turns out, cards were in use way before they got conscripted by computers. Jacquard looms are one famous ...

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