22 Feb
2004
22 Feb
'04
4:31 p.m.
> > 39th? Shouldn't it be older than that?
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Michael Sokolov wrote:
But there already were IBM Hollerith machines in World
War II, weren't there?
I even remember reading about Nazis using them for bean counting in their camps.
So how can it only be 39 years old? WW2 ended in 1945, so it must be at least
2004-1945=59 years old.
Yes, young ones.
The 1890 census was, indeed, before World War II.
Hollerith Tabulating Company was absorbed in about 1915 into
Calculating-Tabulating-Recording Co., which changed name to
IBM in about 1925
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