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... Machine Company and was doing a brisk busi- ness selling his punch cards and counting machines to in- dustrial customers . Eventually he merged with two others to form the Computing - Tabulating - Recording Company , a firm that was ...
... Machine Company and was doing a brisk busi- ness selling his punch cards and counting machines to in- dustrial customers . Eventually he merged with two others to form the Computing - Tabulating - Recording Company , a firm that was ...
Page 34
... machine with one or another set of instructions . Babbage's downfall was technological rather than con- ceptual , rather like an inventor designing an automobile en- gine and then trying to build it out of wood . Numbers in his machine ...
... machine with one or another set of instructions . Babbage's downfall was technological rather than con- ceptual , rather like an inventor designing an automobile en- gine and then trying to build it out of wood . Numbers in his machine ...
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... machine understood and could do and what hu- man beings understood and might want to do . This history more or less ... machine language . A Swiss theorist name Heinze Rutishauser invented the first rough- hewn model of what would later ...
... machine understood and could do and what hu- man beings understood and might want to do . This history more or less ... machine language . A Swiss theorist name Heinze Rutishauser invented the first rough- hewn model of what would later ...
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