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Paper machines: about cards & catalogs, 1548-1929

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Today on almost every desk in every office sits a computer. 80 years ago, desktops were equipped with a non-electronic data processing machine: a card file.

Markus Krajewski traces the evolution of this proto-computer of rearrangeable parts (file cards) that became ubiquitous in offices between the world wars.

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The MIT Press
0262297272 / 9780262297271
eBook (Adobe Pdf, EPUB)
19/08/2011
English
207 pages
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