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Located in the small town of Minden, Nebraska, Harold Warp Pioneer Village is one of the most fascinating museums in the United States. Founded in 1953, Pioneer Village has grown to 28 buildings on 20 acres of land. It is chock full and cluttered with an amazingly eclectic collection of Americana.
Urban Sciences Building, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
Punch cards were used in the early 19th century to store data and control machinery. The pattern represents a punch card carrying a message encoded using methods invented in the 1960s.
The entrance façade is covered in a series of lines, circles and dots. This composition represents the information resources in the University’s websites, including their myriad networks and layers of connections captured at a moment in time.
Design (2017): Hawkins\Brown.
Highspeed punch card reader, optical reader unit, reads approx. 1200 cards per minute.
Making of this shot for Macro Mondays:
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Paper dictionaries have become an anachronism. Rarely are they used for their original purpose, when it's so easy to look up a word by reaching for your phone, or without even moving your fingers away from your keyboard.
As a bonus, I cast a shadow here using another paper anachronism, an 80-column computer punch card. The shadow has a yellow tint because of the colour of the card.
Can you decode the line of code on the card?
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Here's my usual behind-the-scenes photo:
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A Jacquard head on a loom in the Science Museum documents an early advance in automation.
IBM microfilm punch cards were lying all over the floor of this room, as well as under ceiling rubble.
Two old forms of computer memory, one paper and one electronic. The paper one is a computer card aka punch card, for purposes of this week's Macro Mondays theme "CARD". The electronic one is magnetic core memory, and is here just because I'm a nerd.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-core_memory
This shelf is essentially the earliest form of hard drive.
Italia, 2021.
Macro Mondays - Theme: Holes - Happy Macro Monday
Punched card
A punched card or punch card is a piece of stiff paper that can be used to contain digital data represented by the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions. Digital data can be used for data processing applications or, in earlier examples, used to directly control automated machinery.
Punched cards were widely used through much of the 20th century in the data processing industry, where specialized and increasingly complex unit record machines, organized into semiautomatic data processing systems, used punched cards for data input, output, and storage. Many early digital computers used punched cards, often prepared using keypunch machines, as the primary medium for input of both computer programs and data.
While punched cards are now obsolete as a storage medium, as of 2012, some voting machines still use punched cards to record votes. [Wikipedia]
