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Punched-Card Systems and the Early Information Explosion, 1880–1945 / by Heide, Lars, 1950-

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.…”
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Punched-card systems and the early information explosion, 1880-1945 by Heide, Lars, 1950-

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.…”
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Punched-Card Systems and the Early Information Explosion, 1880–1945 by Heide, Lars, 1950-

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.…”
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