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 ubiqui...

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Main Author:	Krajewski, Markus, 1972- (Author)
Other Authors:	Krapp, Peter (Translator)
Format:	eBook
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. INFORMATION SCIENCE/General SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Technology INFORMATION SCIENCE/Library Science Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book