The Hollerith Machine

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Post by bsou » Thu, Aug 20, 2015, 4:20 AM UTC

The Hollerith Machine
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Re: The Hollerith Machine

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Post by dogweather » Thu, Aug 20, 2015, 6:13 AM UTC

There's a beautiful exhibit of one of these in the Computer History Museum. Just saw it last weekend.

http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/punched-cards/2/2

Re: The Hollerith Machine

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Post by davecridland » Thu, Aug 20, 2015, 9:00 AM UTC

The Holleriths (later IBM Tabulators) were also used extensively in Bletchley Park and the Heliopolis station as part of the technique for cracking Italian Air codes - explaining why there's one or two knocking about in the National Museum of Computing in Bletchley.

Re: The Hollerith Machine

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Post by _b8r0 » Thu, Aug 20, 2015, 9:06 AM UTC

Holleriths were also used to coordinate elements of the Holocaust[1].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

Re: The Hollerith Machine

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Post by hornokplease » Thu, Aug 20, 2015, 1:29 PM UTC

There's a great segment in the documentary series Connections that discusses the Hollerith Machine: https://youtu.be/_mT_futz23s?t=2m37s