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5 days ago · In the late 1880s, the American Herman Hollerith invented data storage on punched cards that could then be read by a machine. To process these punched cards, he invented the tabulator and the keypunch machine.
5 days ago · Today in 1890, two thousand clerks began processing the results of the 1890 U.S. Census, employing ninety-six of Herman Hollerith’s tabulating machines, using a punched card system where a hole punched in a specific place on the card signified a fact about an individual.
4 days ago · Computer programming or coding is the composition of sequences of instructions, called programs, that computers can follow to perform tasks. [1] [2] It involves designing and implementing algorithms, step-by-step specifications of procedures, by writing code in one or more programming languages. Programmers typically use high-level programming ...
1 day ago · Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRS ( / ˈtjʊərɪŋ /; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. [5] He was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation ...
4 days ago · Das Herman Hollerith Zentrum (HHZ) setzt innovative Studiengänge für moderne Informatik und Business sowie angewandte Forschung am Standort Böblingen um. Dabei ist das Lehr- und Forschungszentrum in die Strukturen der Hochschule Reutlingen und die Fakultät Informatik eingebunden.
4 days ago · A punched card, also known as a Hollerith card or IBM card, is a stiff paper that stores digital information, which is represented by the absence and presence of holes. Paper tapes are used as output devices.
5 days ago · Home > Browse Our Collection > Computers > ICL > ICL Personal Computer Model 30 8120/05. The ICL Personal Computer (ICL PC) started production in 1981. Despite the name, it was a CP/M computer. The ICL PC uses an Intel 8085 for its CPU. It can run either CP/M-80 or M/PM.
