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Friends: 0 |  "1890: The U.S. Census Bureau uses a tabulating machine for the first time. Freed of the laborious process of hand-sorting its data, the bureau is able to produce a complete census within two years." "Data for his tabulator was taken using a punch card, known as the Hollerith card. For ease of storage it was made the same size as paper currency and the machine employed spring-loaded needles capable of reading whether or not a hole had been punched." "In the wake of this success, Hollerith established a company to market his machine. This company later merged with a couple of other firms and, eventually, IBM was born." http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/n.../dayintech_0601 |
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