What does PC stand for?

Punched Card

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Information technology (IT) and computers

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00 Hardcover Studies in industry society HF5548 Heide (business history, Copenhagen Business School) documents the history of the punched card and shows how this primitive system of documentation led to the modern information age.

Punched-card systems and the early information explosion, 1880-1945

This is not unique to software marketing or coincidental; add in bundling and substitute punched cards for subscription maintenance and this is how IBM made its money from way back when it was called Computer Tabluating and Recording, or some such name.

United states : Managing Your Enterprise-Software-Vendor Stockholm ...

You hold up the hole punched card and a meadow of wool falls from it, ready for the harvest.

A moving moment; Wife in the North

History enthusiast Essinger tracks the evolution of Jacquard's machine, a set of punched cards that directed patterns produced on silk looms, finding that Jacquard adapted (but did not invent) the system primarily to corner the silk weaving market.

Jacquard's web; how a hand-loom led to the birth of the information ...