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U S Government Vacuum Tubes
2,054 wordsIBM was incorporated in the state of New York on June 15, 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company. But its origins can be traced back to 1890, during the height of the Industrial Revolution, when the United States was experiencing waves of immigration. The U. S. Census Bureau knew its traditional methods of counting would not be adequate for measuring the population, so it sponsored a contest to find a more efficient means of tabulating census data. The winner was Herman Hollerith, a ...
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Presidential Election Registered Voters
1,501 wordsDifferent Kinds of Ballots The debate over the Florida ballots in the presidential election in 2000 began a nationwide interest in the kinds of ballots that have been used in the United States throughout the years. There have been many different tools utilized in voting, with varied efficiency and reliability. This paper will cover what some of these ballots are, as well as discuss some of their strengths and shortcomings. We will look at the history of the use of these different voting methods,...
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Large Scale Integration Central Processing Unit
3,632 wordsOverview Nothing epitomizes modern life better than the computer. For better or worse, computers have infiltrated every aspect of our society. Today computers do much more than simply compute: supermarket scanners calculate our grocery bill while keeping store inventory; computerized telephone switching centers play traffic cop to millions of calls and keep lines of communication untangled; and automatic teller machines (ATM) let us conduct banking transactions from virtually anywhere in the wor...
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Effect On Society Amounts Of Information
1,552 wordsComputer Technology and the Effect on Society Computer technology has had a great effect on society as a whole throughout history. It has modified our behavior greatly as we have become accustomed to the technological advancements of yesterday. We are so dependent sometimes we do not even have a concept of what life would be like without computers. When we are forced to live life without computers we are left hopeless and disillusioned and simple everyday tasks become major chores. Computers of ...
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U S Census Punch Cards
775 wordsWhere Herman Hollerith Herman Hollerith Where would our world be today without computers? There would be a lot of things that are different then how they are today. Luckily, for us, a man by the name of Herman Hollerith discovered the basis for what we have today, a computer. Hollerith was born in 1860 in Buffalo, New York. In his childhood, Herman was considered a very smart young boy. He attended the City College of New York when he was only fifteen. He then would move on to the Colombia Schoo...
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Punched Card Machines Large Scale Integration
3,397 wordsThe Computer and Its Histor CONTENTS I. Introduction? ? ... ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? . 4 II. Early Tools and Their Inventory? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ... 4 III. Electro-Mechanical and Electrical Calculating Machines? ? ? ? ? ? ? 6 IV. Random Access Memory (RAM) Computers Come into the Lime-Light? ... 8 V. Change was Good? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 9 VI. The Computer Gets Cheap, Even the Average Joe Can Buy One? 10 VII. Conclusion? ? ? ? ? ? ? ...
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Portrait Of The Artist Cape Town
1,108 wordsPortrait of the artist as a callow youth Youth JM Coetzee 169 pp, Server Disgrace, JM Coetzee's last novel, set a contemporary benchmark in good fiction. Quite apart from winning him a second Booker, it had an icy brilliance that showed up the work of other novelists, peers and young pretenders alike. By comparison many of us seem at best technically defective, at worst expressive of literary values he might consider pure philistinism. Although the excuse was given of a prior engagement, the aut...
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Ibm Compatible Vacuum Tubes
2,132 wordsWhether you know it or not you depend on computers for almost every thing you do in modern day life. From the second you get up in the morning to the second you go to sleep computer are tied into what you do and use in some way. It is tied in to you life in the most obvious and obscure ways. Take for example you wake up in the morning usually to a digital alarm clock. You start you car it uses computers the second you turn the key (General Motors is the largest buyers of computer components in t...
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