In 1914 Watson took over an ailing vendor of business equipment called Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co.
Hollerith, a former employee of the Census Bureau, had the idea of building a tabulating machine.
When it came to choosing a tabulating machine for the 1890 census, Hollerith's design was one of three contenders.
All of which is very exciting indeed and no doubt the lawyers are tabulating their fees as you read.
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This success enabled Hollerith to expand his Tabulating Machine Company into overseas markets.
International Business Machines Corporation was incorporated in the State of New York on June 16, 1911, as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co.
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That name had been taken by the former Computer Tabulating Recording Corp, which went all the way back to the 1880s.
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She spent dozens of hours over the past few months examining and tabulating FTC complaint data and now needs stronger eye glasses.
British Tabulating Machine Company has plans for building a really small model.
When a card was inserted into the tabulating machine, the counters would be updated accordingly, and the appropriate drawer in the sorting machine would open.
Metro areas are geographic entities defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget used by federal agencies in collecting, tabulating and publishing federal statistics.
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The first two eras were tabulating machines and programmable computers.
Besides tracing the dock's history and shooing trespassers away, officials also are keeping a daily count of the vehicles entering the nearby parking lot tabulating thousands of additional visitors since the structure landed.
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The only way manual systems could work for a larger group would be through a pyramid-like mechanism, with small groups reporting their manually obtained results up the chain to more central tabulating authorities.
While tabulating the responses they got, he did various checks and examinations, drawing on earlier research where possible, to among other things try to separate out anger and anxiety, which he conceded is not an easy thing.
He transferred the reams of data files onto a desktop computer, spent weeks figuring out how to pull the chaos of information into a searchable database, and then started tabulating the emergency-room visits of victims of serious assault.
It looks at the market fundamentals in the country's 25 most populated metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs or metros), geographic entities defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget used by federal agencies in collecting, tabulating and publishing federal statistics.
In tabulating year-to-date new-car sales he assumed that states having greater than average new-car sales growth rate reflect a more robust economy than those having below average growth, and would in turn be more likely to vote for the incumbent, and vice-versa.
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At the same time, he switched from a paper strip to punched cards. (Making the cards the same size as dollar bills meant that existing storage cabinets could be used.) By clever wiring of the tabulating machine, it was possible to count the number of cards with particular combinations of attributes.
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