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Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co

From Graces Guide
April 1921.

Later International Business Machines (IBM).

1880s Herman Hollerith invented the punched-card technology for use in the US census[1].

1896 Hollerith formed a small business in the United States to manufacture and market his machines.

1902 Tabulating Machine Company (or TMC) owned the rights to Hollerith's machines[2].

1908 The Tabulating Machine Company (TMC) gave an exclusive license to the British Tabulating Machine Co of London to market its punched-card machines in Britain and the Empire.

1911 TMC became part of a new company, the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co (C-T-R) which made timing devices, scales and slices (sic), in addition to tabulators.[3]

1924 C-T-R was renamed International Business Machines - IBM.

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ [1] BTM
  2. ↑ The Staffordshire University Computing Futures Museum Computers Page [2]
  3. ↑ The Shaping of Automation: A Historical Analysis of the Interaction Between ... By Dirk de Wit (1994)
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