Nicholas wrote down the exact time on his punched card.

尼古拉斯在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，计算机程序员使用孔卡片。

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孔卡阅读器。

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

每排布的图案由孔卡片定义。

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

孔卡片不仅对将数据输入计算机有用，而且对从计算机中提取数据也很有用。

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

它可以次吸入张孔卡，并将卡的内写入计算机内存。

Punched cards, turned out to be a cheap , reliable, fairly human readable way to store data.

孔卡片被证明是种廉价、可靠、相当人性化的数据存储方式。

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孔卡和磁带等介质上的程序和数据淘汰。

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，原因是该州孔卡片机的问题，糟糕的选票设计在些选票上留下了悬挂的小角。

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

处理器、孔卡阅读器和打印机是众所周知的，并且没有改变。

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

如果您装入叠孔卡片，读卡器会将它们作为大块依次加载到内存中。

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序也可能有数百条指令，这意味着程序是以叠孔卡的形式存储的。

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

另外，需要跟踪的孔卡数量大大减少。

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

INTRO 最早的计算机存储是纸质孔卡，它的近亲是孔纸带。

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.

但在 1962 年，当计算机仍然是柜子大小的庞然大物时，它会在孔卡上发出嘎嘎声，而画板和光笔则可以让你大开眼界，让大脑融化。

To vary the pattern across rows these punch cards were arranged in long chains, forming a sequence of commands for the loom.

为了改变行间的图案，这些孔卡片被排列成长链，形成了织布机的系列命令。

A close cousin to punch cards was punched paper tape, which is basically the same idea, but continuously instead of being on individual cards.

孔卡片的近亲是孔纸带，这基本上是相同的想法，但连续而不是在单独的卡片上。

And early home computers made for the hobbyist market used switches extensively, because most home users couldn't afford expensive peripherals like punch card readers.

早期为爱好者市场制造的家用电脑广泛使用开关，因为大多数家庭用户买不起孔卡阅读器等昂贵的外围设备。

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

几十年来，孔卡片是种有用且流行的存储方式，它们不需要电源，而且纸张便宜且相当耐用。

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.

主程序存储在 62,500 张孔卡片上，大约相当于 5 兆字节的数据，这是当今智能手机照片的平均大小。