I'm reading this book right now and it's glorious- it goes into a ton of detail on the history and design of early mechanical punchcard tabulators, sorters, mul

I'm reading this book right now and it's glorious- it goes into a ton of detail on the history and design of early mechanical punchcard tabulators, sorters, multipliers, etc, in order to get you to the motivation to make it all electronic, etc. Highly recommend it. Also- this "printing" is really more a xerox of the original- and the "print" quality stinks. I got an older hardcover version off of amazon that was actually typeset and much easier to read.