Machines and people have been working together for decades, perhaps more than you had thought, to keep University information technology systems running. The people operating punch card and tabulating machines, the majority of whom were women, most likely did not see their role as one of managing information technology.
Making Sense of the Census: Hollerith's Punched Card Solution
DUCC, TUCC, and the origins of digital computing in North Carolina
Punch Cards for Data Processing
Making Punch Card Programming A Snap
Canton Observer for September 17, 1990 - Canton Public Library
Interfaces Volume 2 (2021), CHARLES BABBAGE INSTITUTE
The Surprisingly Long Life of the Punch Card - IEEE Spectrum
Babbage and his machines - Carlo Randone - 14 dec 2015
National Museum of American History
Punch cards enter business vernacular - WiredPen
Early Card Punch Machines
Order 0/ eveNts - University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy