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Tabulating Machines Summary
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Tabulating machines, or punched card machines, were the earliest automated data processing devices. They include keypunch machines, collators, sorters, reproducers, and tabulators. By the late 1980s, virtually all tabulating machines had been replaced...
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Tabulating machine Information
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The tabulating machine was a machine designed to assist in tabulations. Invented by Herman Hollerith, the machine was developed to help process data for the 1890 U.S. Census. The term "Super Computing" was first used by the New York World newspaper in...


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Albuquerque Journal
Vote Tabulation Hit New Snag
06/06/2002: 874 words, approx. 3 pages
Clerk's Strategies Worked; Processing System Didn't It looked like Bernalillo County finally had a smoothly run election until a late-night problem delayed the vote tabulation by more than three hours. "Everything was going so well," said County Clerk Mary Herrera. "We didn't...
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Trinity Journal
Calendrical Tabulations 1900-2200
04/01/2005: 846 words, approx. 3 pages
Edward M. Reingold and Nachum Dershowitz. Calendrical Tabulations 1900-2200. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 603 pp. $130.00. Occasionally one finds a reference volume absolutely indispensable for only the occasional specialized need. Calendrical Tabulations 1900-2200 is such a volume. Edward M. Reingold, present chair...
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AP News
Controversy arises over election reform
9/6/2007: 914 words, approx. 3 pages
Lawmakers have come full circle after devoting more money to high-tech voting machines following the 2000 election debacle in Florida. They now say a return to the paper trails of old is the key to an honest vote, exasperating state election officials.Legislation pending in the...
 


 

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