> > > 39th? Shouldn't it be older than that?
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Michael Sokolov wrote:
> But there already were IBM Hollerith machines in World War II, weren't there?
> I even remember reading about Nazis using them for bean counting in their camps.
> So how can it only be 39 years old? WW2 ended in 1945, so it must be at least
> 2004-1945=59 years old.
Yes, young ones.
The 1890 census was, indeed, before World War II.
Hollerith Tabulating Company was absorbed in about 1915 into
Calculating-Tabulating-Recording Co., which changed name to
IBM in about 1925
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Received on Sun Feb 22 2004 - 21:31:29 GMT