1. The History of Computers
It was programmed by and stored data on cards with holes punched in them, appropriately called punch cards. ... By modern standards the punched-card machines were slow, typically processing from 50 to 250 cards per minute, with each card holding up to 80 digits. ... New weapons systems were produced which needed trajectory tables and other essential data. ... With this invention, managers had even more power to perform calculations for such things as statistical demographic data (Beer, 1966). Before this time, it was very rare for a manager of a larger business to have the means to process lar...
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