Hollerith Machine

Invented in 1890

Punched aligned holes in a punch card that the machine could process and count up to 80 punchcards of data.

later models used for business applications

Originally intented to keep track of people coming through railway transportation

Predecessor of digital accounting machines

Invented by Herman Hollerith

Refrences

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Hollerith