Topic summary
Computer peripherals
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Peripheral.
History
One of the earliest known computer peripherals to be made was the punched card, which was first introduced into computing in the late 1880s by Herman Hollerith, an American engineer. As a result, the punched card tabulator was invented, which was able to read the punch cards. In addition, it was the first computer peripheral to be mass-produced. In 1901, the introduction of the punched card also led to the creation of the Hollerith Type 001 Mechanical Card Punch, would become the basis of computer keyboards. The keypunch allowed operators to punch the digits 0-9, without the user having prior knowledge of the corresponding card codes.