collectively referred to as unit record equipment, electric accounting machines (EAM) or tabulating machines. Unit record machines came to be as ubiquitous...
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Tabulating machine (redirect from Tabulating equipment)
and inventory control. It spawned a class of machines, known as unit record equipment, and the data processing industry. The term "Super Computing" was...
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Plugboard (category IBM unit record equipment)
circuit. Control panels are sometimes used to direct the operation of unit record equipment, cipher machines, and early computers. The array of holes is often...
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Keypunch (category UNIVAC unit record equipment)
entry clerks. Punched card Punched card input/output Hollerith code Unit record equipment Computer programming in the punched card era List of IBM products...
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telecommunications, a customer-premises equipment or customer-provided equipment (CPE) is any terminal and associated equipment located at a subscriber's premises...
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unit record equipment such as a punched card device. A record on a DASD can be accessed without having to read through intervening records from the current...
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Punched card sorter (category IBM unit record equipment)
activity in most facilities that processed data on punched cards using unit record equipment. The work flow of many processes required decks of cards to be put...
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IBM 557 (category IBM unit record equipment)
machine down to its base and rebuilding it, an eight-hour job. Unit record equipment IBM 550 Numeric Interpreter "IBM Card Interpreters". IBM 557 Alphabetic...
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IBM 407 (category IBM unit record equipment)
directed by a control panel. The 407 was the central component of many unit record equipment shops which were the mainstay of IBM's business at the time. It...
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the highly successful IBM 1400 series, it was aimed at replacing unit record equipment for processing data stored on punched cards and at providing peripheral...
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