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... cards as a repository for information . It was not wholly original . In the early years of the nineteenth century a Frenchman named Joseph Marie Jacquard invented a punch - card device to control the operation of looms ; punched ...
... cards as a repository for information . It was not wholly original . In the early years of the nineteenth century a Frenchman named Joseph Marie Jacquard invented a punch - card device to control the operation of looms ; punched ...
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... cards , then a way to count and sort the cards quickly . The system Hollerith devised used a card six and five- eighths inches long and three and one - quarter inches high . On each card were 288 squares , 24 columns of 12 , that could ...
... cards , then a way to count and sort the cards quickly . The system Hollerith devised used a card six and five- eighths inches long and three and one - quarter inches high . On each card were 288 squares , 24 columns of 12 , that could ...
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... cards to control his Analytical Engine . Some cards would be punched with pat- terns of holes that , in effect , told the machine what to do . Others would have patterns representing the numbers it was supposed to perform these ...
... cards to control his Analytical Engine . Some cards would be punched with pat- terns of holes that , in effect , told the machine what to do . Others would have patterns representing the numbers it was supposed to perform these ...
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