![]() The depersonalization of the punch-card era found its catch phrase in the words on the cards its ubiquity gave it instant familiarity. In the 1960s, punchcards and the slogan “don’t bend, fold, spindle or mutilate” became symbols of alienation and technocratic oppression used by campus protests and many countercultural movements: When punchcards became widely used, they were printed with a universal warning: “don’t bend, fold, spindle or mutilate”, which became a cultural meme that long outlived the use of punchcards. The tabulation machine used for counting the 1890 census was developed by a company that later became IBM. These early uses of punchcards employed data tabulation machines capable of counting the number of times particular holes have been punched in a series of cards, fed into the machine one at a time. Punchcards predated computers, which is to say that data storage and transference predates computers. In the 1930s, punch cards were used by the New Deal agencies, and by the 1940s punch cards were widespread throughout American society. Before World War 1, punch cards started being used by the military, the railroads, and insurance companies to store data. “ ’Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate’: A Cultural History of the Punch Card” by Steven Lubar details the earliest method of data storage and transference. Introduction: Please don’t bend, fold, spindle or mutilate me ¶ Loading Other Kinds of Electronic Data Files Identifying and Solving Problems with Text-Based Data Files Looking at the DataFrame to See if it Loaded Correctly ![]() Introduction: Please don’t bend, fold, spindle or mutilate me
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