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 ...

From the early 20th century into the 1970s, Americans used punched cards to enter data onto tabulating equipment and then electronic computers. This early key-operated punch is based on patents of the ...

Three federal appellate judges expressed skepticism Thursday that the Oct. 7 recall election can be conducted properly using punch-card voting machines in Los Angeles and other urban counties. The ...

There is a corrosive perception that the voting system in parts of the United States systematically prevents people from voting and that this particularly discriminates against blacks. Litigation over ...

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 ...

Minority groups and voting-rights advocates sued California's top elections official yesterday for allowing punch-card voting machines that produce high error rates ...

CHICAGO — The much-maligned punch-card ballot got something Thursday that many election officials were loath to give it in 2000: respect. Chad or no chad, increasing concern about the security of ...

The recent Supercon 6 badge, if you haven’t seen it, was an old-fashioned type computer with a blinky light front panel. It was reminiscent of an Altair 8800, a PDP-11, or DG Nova. However, even back ...

LOS ANGELES - With a gubernatorial recall election pending in the state, the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California today filed a lawsuit challenging the continued use of outdated, ...