Served as both input, output and storage system in the eary days!
Video 1.
1964 IBM 029 Keypunch Card Punching Demonstration by CuriousMarc (2014)
. Source.
Video 2.
Using Punch Cards by Bubbles Whiting (2016)
. Source. Interview at the The Centre for Computing History.
Video 3.
Once Upon A Punched Card by IBM (1964)
. Source. Goes on and on a bit too long. But cool still.
Video 1.
The 1890 US Census and the history of punchcard computing by Stand-up Maths (2020)
. Source. It was basically a counting machine! Shows a reconstruction at the Computer History Museum.