15 Jun
2011
15 Jun
'11
1:09 a.m.
On 2011 Jun 15, at 12:38 AM, vintagecoder at aol.com wrote:
?!!!?
Hollerith cards and equipment were invented by Herman Hollerith (b.
Buffalo, NY) in the US and were used in the 1890 US Census. He formed
the "Tabulating Machine Company" which amalgamated with others to
become CTR in 1911.
If CTR bought out Dehomag in 1923, I would guess that Dehomag had
earlier spun off or acquired rights from the initial US Hollerith
company.
IBM started
out as a German company. There was a book put out after
> research done by Edwin Black showing IBM was part of the Nazi war
> apparatus, since they needed information processing capabilities to
> identify "enemies of the state" and round them up for execution.
Excuse me? I'd always been given to believe
that CTR was formed from
a
merger of various operations, including meat processing, scales, time
clocks and punched card equipment and subsequently renamed IBM.
Yeah, keep reading. CTR bought out Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Groupe
(Dehomag) in 1923 and in 1924 they became IBM. The Hollerith machines
are
what made IBM all those millions/billions after that and during the war
years. Without the Hollerith machine IBM would have been JATC (Just
Another
Timecard Company).