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17 Cards in this Set
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Herman Hollerith
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The inventor of the first punched card processor
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Mercury
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What chemically processed each punched card by reading over every hole
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Marie Jacqual
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The inventor of the loom that the punched card system was invented off of
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Binary Code
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The 1 and 0 code to represent holes or no holes
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1949
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The year that the Type 026 punched card reader was introduced
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Social Security Act of 1935
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The Act that gave millions of Americans retirement benefits
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Type 77 Collator
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Sorted multiple stacks of punched cards into one big stack
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Type 80 Card Sorter
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Sorted punched cards numerically and aplhabetically
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Ida Fuller
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First person to receive a government check in punched card form
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IBM Alphabetic Calculator
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Sorted up to 150 cards in a minute and into multiple alphabetic sums
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403 Accounting Machine
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Kept track of large sums of punched cards and then printed out reports
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Type 82 Sorter
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Sorted and punched cards up to 550 a minute into thirteen bins
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Model 406 Sorter
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Sorted cards that had 40 columns
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7" x 3"
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Size of a punched card
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Eight Years
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The time it took to complete the 19880 census
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Clair Lake
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Wanted rectangular holes on a punched card
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Royden Pierce
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Wanted each hole to represent more than one symbol
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