The
above coords are not for the cache.
I read alot about ciphers and codes. I
noticed that tabulation machines had a big part in helping
the allies solve the German Enigma machine, the Japanese
Millitary ciper machines and even design the atomic
bomb.
A lot of
work from an innocent looking piece of paper.
In fact
the place I work, was started all from a piece of paper like shown
above.
Herman
Hollerith developed punched card data processing technology for the
1890 US census and founded the Tabulating Machine
Company (1896) which was one of three companies that merged to
form Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation (CTR), later
renamed IBM. IBM manufactured and marketed a variety of unit
record machines for creating, sorting, and tabulating punched
cards, even after expanding into computers in the late 1950s. IBM
developed punch card technology into a powerful tool for business
data-processing and produced an extensive line of general purpose
unit record machines. By 1950, the IBM card and IBM unit record
machines had become ubiquitous in industry and government. "Do not
fold, spindle or mutilate," a generalized version of the warning
that appeared on some punched cards, became a motto for the
post-World War II era (even though many people had no idea
what spindle meant).
So there
you have it. Our local IBM has it's roots in the little old punch
card.
