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Since no one has mentioned it yet, this is a wonderful book on the evolution of index cards: Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548 – 1929 (History and F
by lioeters 9y ago
Since no one has mentioned it yet, this is a wonderful book on the evolution of index cards:
Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548 – 1929 (History and Foundations of Information Science) (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/paper-machines https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/paper-machines)
- nickloewen 9y agoThank you for sharing this! I have been interested for a while in the idea that index cards, as analogue forms of cataloguing and computation, have been used in a number of ways that are still relevant to our new designs. It’s great to have this thread full of resources, and I don’t think that I have seen this one before.