Punched-card systems and the early information explosion, 1880-1945
This comparative study will interest students and scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including the history of technology, computer science, business history, and management and organizational studies.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press
2009.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Studies in industry and society.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423006006719 |
Table of Contents:
- Punched cards and the 1890 United States census
- New users, new machines
- U.S. challengers to Hollerith
- The rise of international business machines
- Decline of punched cards for European census processing
- Punched cards for general statistics in Europe
- Different roads to European punched-card bookkeeping
- Keeping tabs on society with punched cards.
