Hackers' Pub

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Stefan Bohacek @stefan@stefanbohacek.online

3/5/2026, 2:29:38 PM

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"The idea of a computer library dates back to the first computers created by Charles Babbage.

An 1888 paper on his Analytical Engine suggested that computer operations could be punched on separate cards from numerical input. If these operation punch cards were saved for reuse then "by degrees the engine would have a library of its own.""

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_(computing)

#programming #development #PunchCards #history #ComputerHistory

An aged 1951 black-and-white photo of a woman using a keyboard perforator (device designed to make holes) to "punch a program tape".

Next to her is a filing cabinet containing reels of punched tape.

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