The Hollerith Machine

Posted by bsou on Thursday August 20, 2015 @12:20AM
from the census.gov dept.

https://www.census.gov/history/www/innovations/technology/the_hollerith_tabulator.html

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Re:The Hollerith Machine by _b8r0 on Thursday August 20, 2015 @05:06AM (#10090684)

Holleriths were also used to coordinate elements of the Holocaust[1].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

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Re:The Hollerith Machine by dogweather on Thursday August 20, 2015 @02:13AM (#10090233)

There's a beautiful exhibit of one of these in the Computer History Museum. Just saw it last weekend.

http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/punched-cards/2/2

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Re:The Hollerith Machine by davecridland on Thursday August 20, 2015 @05:00AM (#10090658)

The Holleriths (later IBM Tabulators) were also used extensively in Bletchley Park and the Heliopolis station as part of the technique for cracking Italian Air codes - explaining why there's one or two knocking about in the National Museum of Computing in Bletchley.

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Re:The Hollerith Machine by hornokplease on Thursday August 20, 2015 @09:29AM (#10091660)

There's a great segment in the documentary series Connections that discusses the Hollerith Machine: https://youtu.be/_mT_futz23s?t=2m37s

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