Paper machines : about cards & catalogs, 1548-1929 /

Today on almost every desk in every office sits a computer. Eighty years ago, desktops were equipped with a nonelectronic data processing machine, a card file. In Paper Machines, Markus Krajewski traces the evolution of this proto-computer of rearrangeable parts (file cards) that became ubiquitous i...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Krajewski, Markus, 1972-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2011]
Series:	History and foundations of information science.
Subjects:	Catalog cards > History. Card catalogs > History. Information organization > History.