A grueling 36-day Florida recount battle stemmed from problems with the state's punch card machines where poor ballot design left hanging chads on some ballots.

佛罗里达州进行了为期36天艰苦重新计票之战，原因是该州穿孔卡片机问题，糟票设计一些票上留下了悬挂小角。

Plus, there's WAY less punch cards to keep track of.

而且，需要跟踪穿孔卡片少多了。

Going back to punchcard computers, he'd always been someone who embraced new technologies.

回顾到穿孔卡片计算机时代，他始终是那个乐于接受新技术人。

And they'll talk about it like it's like it's punch cards, right?

他们会谈论它，就像谈论穿孔卡片一样，对吧？

The story begins in the 1940s, when a young Richard Hamming was working for Bell Labs and some of his work involved using a very big very expensive punchcard computer that he had only limited access to.

故事始于20世纪40年代，当时年轻理查德·汉明贝尔实验室工作，他部分工作涉及使用一台非常庞大且昂贵穿孔卡片计算机，而他只有有限访问权限。

So, you know, C programming language came from Unix, and when these time-sharing systems were really, it went from sort of punch cards to something that were a lot more agile.

所以， 你知道， C语言源自Unix，而当时这些分时系统非常流行，它们从穿孔卡片演变为更加灵活形式。

These were like worlds within worlds of microbiological gestalts which I found could then be further transcribed using my grid system to render more musical punch cards.

这些宛如微生物形态内世界，发现可以网格系统进一步转录，转化为更具音乐性穿孔卡片。仿佛一首歌中发现了隐藏旋律。

And punch cards were used by computer programmers as late as the 1970s.

而20世纪70年代，计算机程序员使用穿孔卡片。

Punch cards were a useful and popular form of storage for decades, they didn't need power, plus paper was cheap and reasonably durable.

穿孔卡片几十年间是一种有用且流行存储形式，它们不需要电源，而且纸张便宜且相当耐用。

But in 1962, when computers were still cabinet-sized behemoths chugging through punch cards, Sketchpad and light pens were equal parts eye opening and brain melting.

但1962年，当计算机仍然是柜子大小庞然大物，穿孔卡片进行运算时，Sketchpad和光笔则是既令人眼界大开又让人脑洞大开东西。

A programmer would write one at their desk, for example, on punch cards.

一个程序员会他们办公桌前编写程序，比如穿孔卡上。

The main program was stored on 62,500 punchcards, roughly equivalent to 5 megabytes of data, that's the size of an average smartphone photo today.

主程序存储62,500张穿孔卡片上，大约相当于5兆字节数据，这相当于今天普智能手机拍摄一张照片大小。

By the 1940s, punch cards had largely standardized into a grid of 80 columns and 12 rows, allowing for a maximum of 960 bits of data to be stored on a single card.

到了20世纪40年代，穿孔卡片已经基本标准化为一个包含80列和12行网格，允许单张卡片上存储最多960位数据。

By the end of the 1950s, computers had gotten so fast, they were often idle waiting for slow mechanical things, like printers and punch card readers.

到了20世纪50年代末，计算机已经变得如此之快，它们经常处于空闲状态，等待像打印机和穿孔卡阅读机这样慢速机械装置。

INTRO The earliest computer storage was paper punch cards, and its close cousin, punched paper tape.

简介：最早计算机存储是纸制穿孔卡片，及其近亲——穿孔纸带。

However, by the 1950s, mechanical inputs were rendered obsolete by programs and data stored entirely on mediums like punch cards and magnetic tape.

然而，到了20世纪50年代，机械输入被完全存储穿孔卡和磁带等介质上程序和数据所取代，变得时了。

The processor, punch card readers, and printers were known and unchanging.

处理器、穿孔卡读取器和打印机是已知且不变。

However, punchcards were slow and write-once, you can't easily un-punch a hole.

然而，穿孔卡片速度慢且只能写一次，你不能轻易地把打孔再恢复原状。