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The Hollerith Machine
- dogweather 11y agoThere's a beautiful exhibit of one of these in the Computer History Museum. Just saw it last weekend. http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/punched-cards/2/2 http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/punched-cards/2/2
- davecridland 11y agoThe Holleriths (later IBM Tabulators) were also used extensively in Bletchley Park and the Heliopolis station as part of the technique for cracking Italian Air codes - explaining why there's one or two knocking about in the National Museum of Computing in Bletchley.
- iuguy 11y agoHolleriths were also used to coordinate elements of the Holocaust[1]. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
- hornokplease 11y agoThere's a great segment in the documentary series Connections that discusses the Hollerith Machine: https://youtu.be/_mT_futz23s?t=2m37s https://youtu.be/_mT_futz23s?t=2m37s