The first fruit of this effort was a purpose-built relationally-based data handling system built for the British Geological Survey in 1973.

该工作的第一个成果就是在1973年为British Geological Survey构建的专用的、基于关系的数据处理系统。

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These punched cards were the same cards that later were used in computer system handling data feed.

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