At that point, GISS's computer was the fastest in the world, but it still had to be fed punch cards.
THE short-sleeved dress shirt conjures an image of pale crew-cut men, circa 1965, feeding punch cards into a mainframe computer the size of a studio apartment.
R. Glenn Hubbard, now chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, fed punch cards filled with data into an early computer to help Mr. Feldstein with his research.
Deciphering 50,000 five-digit numeral groups and feeding punch cards into a hulking, primitive I.B.M. machine, they fueled themselves on patriotism, coffee and Benzedrine pills, these last dispensed from a bucket lying next to a cache of highly classified intercepts.
Using this expertise, he started a market-research company in Tokyo during Japan's postwar boom, where, by feeding punch cards into an I.B.M. mainframe, he created reports for consumer brands, many of them alcohol and tobacco products.
Loading paths corresponding to the strain paths with a constant strain ratio at the pole of the bulging tube are determined by FE simulations linked with a self-compiled subroutine and are used to control the internal pressure and axial feeding punch of the test machine.
McIntyre initially updated 24 news pages on his own, feeding punch tape into machines, before recruiting Ceefax's first eight journalists.
This hydroforming test machine features four independent controls of two axial feeding punches, an internal pressure, and a counter punch.
In a short time, I went from feeding punched paper tape into the TX-0 to doing interactive graphics on the TX-2.
Early room-sized computers needed scientists in white lab coats just to turn on the machines and feed paper punch cards into the right slots.
