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Tabulating machine
About: Tabulating machine is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 55 publications have been published within this topic receiving 381 citations.
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1 Jan 1989TL;DR: The British Tabulating Machine Company (ICL) as discussed by the authors was the first company to use the IBM system/360 and the IBM-TMC agreement, which was signed in the early 1970s.
Abstract: Hollerith and the origins, 1880-1907 The British Tabulating Machine Company, 1907-1919 Manufacturing at home, the 1920s Heyday of the punched-card machine industry, the 1930s An interlude: the second World War, 1939-1945 Pent-up demand, 1945-1949 Electronic machines, 1950-1954 Computers and the merger, 1955-1958 The decline of the tabulator, 1959-1961 Negotiations and mergers, 1961-1963 The response to the IBM system/360, 1964-1965 Government relations and the formation of ICL, 1964-1968 ICL and the new range, 1968-1972 Government launching aid for the new range, 1973-1975 Rapid growth in a changing market, 1975-1979 Convergence, the 1980s Summing up: ICL and the evolving information business Notes Appendix 1 The IBM-TMC agreements Appendix 2 List of directors Index
145 citations
TL;DR: The advent of the electric tabulating machine is typically described as key milestones in the development of modern data processing, bringing about a fundamental and inexorable transformation of information technology as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The advent both of punch cards and of the electric tabulating machine, which was invented in 1889, are typically described as key milestones in the development of modern data processing, bringing about a fundamental and inexorable transformation of information technology. This essay aims to decenter the American Hollerith revolution by assessing precisely how punch cards and machine processing transformed established manual techniques and practices of census compilation. By focusing on the Prussian census bureau and its long-standing reluctance to mechanize, this essay reveals an unremarked European revolution in data processing during the 1860s, when a new notion of “data,” novel paper tools, and a carefully nurtured workforce, including many women working from home, yielded unprecedentedly refined census statistics. The essay argues that manual concepts, technologies, and practices of data power—rather than punch cards and Hollerith machines—heralded the modern information age.
66 citations
Book•
2 Nov 2011
TL;DR: This unique volume brings together fascinating memoirs of key IBM engineers and managers of the past 100 years -- from Walter Jones, who started as a sales engineer in 1912 and rose through the ranks for three decades, to Cuthbert Hurd, James Birkenstock, Bob Evans, John Backus, Watts Humphrey, and others who led IBM to supremacy in digital computing and software.
Abstract: More than a century ago Herman Hollerith pioneered punch card tabulation technology. In 1911 his enterprise became the centerpiece of a new corporation (renamed in the 1920s), International Business Machines (IBM). Over the past century IBM has transformed how we record, calculate, and process information -- forever changing business, science, engineering, government, and leisure. Far more than any other firm, IBM created the IT revolution. This unique volume brings together fascinating memoirs of key IBM engineers and managers of the past 100 years -- from Walter Jones, who started as a sales engineer in 1912 and rose through the ranks for three decades, to Cuthbert Hurd, James Birkenstock, Bob Evans, John Backus, Watts Humphrey, and others who led IBM to supremacy in digital computing and software. It details punch card tabulation, IBMs entrance into computing, and the transformative IBM hardware (IBM 650, IBM 1401, System/360) and software (FORTRAN, SABRE, IMS) that changed the world. The IBM Century contains an IBM timeline, the most comprehensive IBM annotated bibliography to date, and a new introductory essay that characterizes IBMs 100-year history and contextualizes each of the memoirs.
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IBM1
TL;DR: In this paper, a perforated record card is used to store different kinds of articles in a series of hoppers or other dispensing structures and selectively dispense them to customers.
Abstract: This invention relates generally to devices for automatically retailing merchandise and more particularly such devices controlled by perforated record cards. The main object of the invention is to store different kinds of articles in a series of hoppers or other dispensing structures and selectively...
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