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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (50864)5/20/2000 12:23:00 AM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 71178
 
The Jaquard loom is in Darwin Among the Machines- it is mentioned a lot. It gave people ideas for card storage (software) for calculator machines- very very cool

The census of 1890 was done with punch cards- it was the Tabulator Machine Company that formed out of this labor, this later became the Computing-Tabulating-REcording company in 1911- and it became IBM in 1924.