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    The Hollerith Electronic Computer (HEC) was produced by the British Tabulating Machine Company (BTM) and was based on a design by Professor Andrew Booth...
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    Punched card (redirect from Hollerith card)
    A punched card (also known as a punch card or Hollerith card) is a stiff paper-based medium used to store and process digital or analog information through...
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  • APEXC (category Computer-related introductions in 1948)
    They then used his design to create the Hollerith Electronic Computer 1 (HEC 1) before the end of 1951. The computer was a direct copy of Andrew Booth's circuits...
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  • commercial electronic data processing Hollerith machines were used to compile the data accumulated in the 1890 U.S. Census of population. Hollerith's Tabulating...
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    CADET Hollerith Electronic Computer ICS Multum ICT ICT 1301 ICT 1900 series LEO (computer) Luton Analogue Computing Engine Manchester computers Manchester...
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  • (HEC), a Korean firm founded in 1974 Hollerith Electronic Computer, Britain's first mass-produced business computer Header Error Control, a method used...
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  • analytical engine beyond mathematical calculations. In the 1880s, Herman Hollerith invented the concept of storing data in machine-readable form. Later a...
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    earliest known computer peripherals to be made was the punched card, which was first introduced into computing in the late 1880s by Herman Hollerith, an American...
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    A mechanical computer is a computer built from mechanical components such as levers and gears rather than electronic components. The most common examples...
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    at the end of the nineteenth century, well before the advent of electronic computers, data processing was performed using electromechanical machines collectively...
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    algorithm ever specifically tailored for implementation on a computer. Around 1885, Herman Hollerith invented the tabulator, which used punched cards to process...
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    Creating the Computer: Government, Industry, and High Technology, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, ISBN 978-0-815-72850-4 Hollerith, Herman (1890)...
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  • (Report). p. 68. "Computer History Museum - Standard Telephones and Cables Limited, London - Stantec Zebra Electronic Digital Computer". Computerhistory...
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  • Computation, W. J. Eckert stated, "The first extensive use of the early Hollerith Tabulator in astronomy was made by Comrie. He used it for building a table...
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    2008. "Harwell Computers: Hollerith 555 and Dekatron". chilton-computing.org.uk. 1. Introduction, 2. Harwell Dekatron; The Harwell Computer by E.H. Cooke-Yarborough...
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  • been built and installed. BTM built a valve based computer called the Hollerith Electronic Computer (HEC). The first model (HEC 1) was built in 1951,...
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    Tabulating machine (category Computer-related introductions in 1890)
    in summarizing information stored on punched cards. Invented by Herman Hollerith, the machine was developed to help process data for the 1890 U.S. Census...
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  • individuals such as Royal Earl House and Frederick G. Creed. Earlier, Herman Hollerith developed the first keypunch devices, which soon evolved to include keys...
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  • Electronic Calculator". The Old Calculator Web Museum. technically, the machine was a programmable calculator, not a computer. "2008/107/1 Computer,...
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    developed useful electrical circuits and the telegraph. In the 1880s, Herman Hollerith developed electromechanical tabulating and calculating devices using punch...
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    extensive use of Hollerith punch card and alphabetical accounting equipment and IBM's majority-owned German subsidiary, Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen GmbH...
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    UNIVAC (category Computer companies established in 1946)
    (Universal Automatic Computer) was a line of electronic digital stored-program computers starting with the products of the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation...
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    world's first computers - Allan Bromley. Reed Business Information. 1983-09-15. p. 784.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) Hollerith Integrating Tabulator...
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    For Hollerith machines and other unit record machines the resulting punched cards contained data to be processed by those machines. For computers equipped...
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    The National Museum of Computing (category Computer museums in the United Kingdom)
    restoration in full public view. This was completed in 2012. Hollerith Electronic Computer (HEC 1) from 1951 (As of September 2024[update] temporarily...
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    been known as the HEC4 (Hollerith Electronic Computer, fourth version). The drum memory held 1K of 40-bit words. The computer was programmed using binary...
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  • mechanical or electronic calculators. A person whose job was to perform calculations manually or using a calculator was called a "computer." The 1890 United...
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    The DEUCE (Digital Electronic Universal Computing Engine) was one of the earliest British commercially available computers, built by English Electric...
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  • TREAC (category Computer music)
    solid state computer). Hollerith Electronic Computer SEAC (computer) SWAC (computer) Early British Computers: The Story of Vintage Computers and the People...
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    Card Printer Hollerith Census Tabulator: 1890 Hollerith Integrating Tabulator: 1896 Hollerith Automatic Feed Tabulator: 1900 IBM 090: Hollerith Type I Tabulator...
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