Tuesday, April 1, 2008

relevant information

At the end of this article about IBM and government contracts, the following note appears, which explains just about everything.

IBM grew up out of a company founded by former U.S. Census bureau employee Herman Hollerith, who developed punch-card tabulation machines to automate counting of the 1890 census. The Computer-Tabulating-Recording Co was renamed IBM [International Business Machines] in 1924.

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