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21 Cards in this Set
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punched cards
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early office calculators
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census
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a record of population. recorded by using punch cards
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Charles Babbage
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Thought of making an automated card reader
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digital media
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using 1's and 0's to record data
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social security act
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provided retirement benefits for more than 30 million americans, problem for accountans over the US
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IBM
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Internal Business Machines
Chairman was Thomas Watson |
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IBM's Type 77 Collator
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Made to organize punch cards
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Hollerith's Tabulating Company
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Old name for IBM
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Depression
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a time of economic troubles;during this time, IBM still triumphed
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Maurice Wilkes
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Helped design a system to make info accessible by printing data as dots on a map
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Uses of punch cards
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-Scientific recording
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British Institute for Terrestrial Ecology
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used punch cards for information on plants and animals
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What Tom Watson thought of IBM
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Not just a business, its a way of life
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1890
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first year that punch cards were used in a census
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Britain
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Used punch cards to make census over the flora and fauna plants
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Type 10 table top punch
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faster way to punch hole in the cards
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"Think"
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IBM's motto during the 1920's to the 1970's
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Endicott school building
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IBM made a school for education on how to use the machines and punch cards
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Endicott school building
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IBM made a school for education on how to use the machines and punch cards
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World War II
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During this war, IBM helped both the US and Germany
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Punch cards position
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The cards would hold up to 80 columns
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