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What kind of "business reports" did these things process? I'm curious what application for your typical business was high value enough to be worth all this comp
by drakenot 8y ago
What kind of "business reports" did these things process? I'm curious what application for your typical business was high value enough to be worth all this complexity and cost.
- kens 8y agoBusinesses used punch cards for accounting, payroll, inventory, taxes, billing, and lots of similar applications. Way before computers, back to the early 1900s, businesses used electromechanical accounting machine to process punch card data. By 1944, there were over 10,000 of these accounting machines in use. Low-end computers often were a replacement for these accounting machines. The language RPG (Report Program Generator) was often used to generate business reports.