Travel Bug Dog Tag Hollerith II

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Owner:
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Released:
Sunday, November 30, 2003
Origin:
Florida, United States
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In 08/08/08 Sunset Social

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Help me find my point of origin. At one time, I was everywhere those big blue machine were found. Now just a faded memory.

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Hollerith Card II

In 1896 Herman Hollerith organized the Tabulating Machines Company, which grew in subsequent mergers to become the IBM of today. The Hollerith punched card was the principal means for recording, accounting and archiving functions, not to mention the US census, until recently. In the early 1960's Hollerith cards were the only practical means to input programs for a IBM mainframe, but today these cards are seldom seen.

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Retrieve It from a Cache 1/20/2005 FEATHERS retrieved it from Camp White Cache Massachusetts   Visit Log

😁~When I Saw This Card,
😮~I Had To Laugh!
🙂~There Are No Holes,
👍~Just A Numbers Graph.~😉

  • * Caching Along *
Dropped Off 1/16/2005 w1qa placed it in Camp White Cache Massachusetts - 1,075.38 miles  Visit Log

Made a quick drop of this bug so someone else can have a chance to move him along ... my brother works at IBM in the Hudson River valley - and a lot of IBM's beginnings were there ... but I didn't think I would be getting down that way anytime soon.

I do remember punching out a lot of these in the late 60's and early 70's ... gads - I even remember the batch control logon card I used to use with WPI's RCA Spectra 70 ...
Retrieve It from a Cache 1/2/2005 w1qa retrieved it from QUABBIN-TOWER-TROVE Massachusetts   Visit Log

Hey - you know what's missing from this card? Holes!

Wow ... its been a while. And now that I'm holding this (IBM) blue card in my hand ... I can actually remember my WPI RCA Spectra 70 batch sign-on sequence: a card that preceeded every batch processing run to identify the user ... and that's from the early 1970's. Ugh!
Dropped Off 1/2/2005 wa1nri placed it in QUABBIN-TOWER-TROVE Massachusetts - 1,085.32 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 12/17/2004 wa1nri retrieved it from SpongeBob Lost In Windermere Florida   Visit Log

Thanks for the memories...Only an engineer can appreciate this!
Dropped Off 12/14/2004 Foskco placed it in SpongeBob Lost In Windermere Florida - 24.72 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 11/27/2004 Foskco retrieved it from Gardensecret Florida   Visit Log

Since my Dad is a computer Geek, I had to grab this one.
Dropped Off 11/20/2004 Howey Folks placed it in Gardensecret Florida - 32.03 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 8/9/2004 Howey Folks retrieved it from Howey No. No. No. No No. Cache Florida   Visit Log

We had to archive the Howey Cache, so we'll be sure to move Hollerith II to a new home shortly. Mostly likely he will travel with Conchy Joe TB. Stay tuned.
Dropped Off 7/5/2004 Turtletoes/Biggie placed it in Howey No. No. No. No No. Cache Florida - 38.14 miles  Visit Log
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