And for this reason, punch cards were used.

出于这个原因，使了打孔卡。

Nicholas wrote down the exact time on his punched card.

尼古拉斯在穿孔卡片上写下准确时间。

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

而在20世纪70年代，计算机程员使穿孔卡片。

Well into the 1980s, almost all computers had a punch card reader.

进入 20 世纪 80 年代，几乎所有的电脑都有一个穿孔卡阅读器。

Hollerith's machine used punch cards which were paper cards with a grid of locations that can be punched out to represent data.

Hollerith的机器使打孔卡这是一种带有网打孔来表示数据的纸卡。

You can draw a straight line from player piano rolls to punch cards and the first computer programs.

您可以从演奏钢琴卷轴到打孔卡和第一个计算机程绘制一条直线。

By the 1930s, the name IBM was synonymous with punch card systems, a dominant technology for storing and retrieving data.

到 1930 年代，IBM 这个名字已成为打孔卡系统的代名词，这是一种存储和检索数据的主导。

During the 60's, banks started installing other electronic computers that replaced punch cards with magnetic disks or tapes that could hold tens of megabytes!

在 60 年代，银行开始安装其他电子计算机，可以容纳数十兆字节的磁盘或磁带代替打孔卡！

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天的艰苦的重新计票之战，原因是该州穿孔卡片机的问题，糟糕的选票设计在一些选票上留下了悬挂的小角。

Even long before computers became popular, he was punching cards and feeding them into the big mainframe computer at Ohio State University.

甚至在计算机流行之前很久，他就在打孔卡片将它们输入俄亥俄州立大学的大型计算机主机中。

And punch cards weren't only useful for getting data into computers, but also getting data out of them.

穿孔卡片不仅对将数据输入计算机有，而且对从计算机中提取数据也很有。

The pattern for each row of the cloth was defined by a punched card.

每排布的图案由穿孔卡片定义。

The largest program ever punched into punch cards was the US Air Force's sage air defense system, completed in 1955.

打孔卡上有史以来最大的项目是美国空军的鼠尾草防空系统，于 1955 年完成。

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 1950 年代，机械输入已被完全存储在穿孔卡和磁带等介质上的程和数据淘汰。

From slow expensive machines controlled by punched cards, computers have become low cost, powerful units taking up no more space than a briefcase.

计算机已经由打孔卡片控制的缓慢而昂贵的机器，发展成为成本低廉、组件强大、所占空间决不会超过公文包大小的机器。

Which could suck in a single punch card at a time and write the contents of the card into the computer's memory.

它可以一次吸入一张穿孔卡，将卡的内容写入计算机内存。

If you loaded in a stack of punch cards, the reader would load them all into memory sequentially, as a big block.

如果您装入一叠穿孔卡片，读卡器会将它们作为一个大块依次加载到内存中。

Its main control program was stored on a whopping 62,500 punch cards, which is equivalent to roughly 5 megabytes of data.

它的主要控制程存储在高达 62,500 张打孔卡上，相当于大约 5 兆字节的数据。

Of course, even simple computer programs might have hundreds of instructions, which meant that programs were stored as stacks of punch cards.

当然，即使是简单的计算机程也可能有数百条指令，这意味着程是以一叠穿孔卡的形式存储的。

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

程员会在他们的办公桌上写一个，例如，在打孔卡片上。