IBM
SPEAKERS BUREAU SLIDE SHOW
Slide
98
Lightning
calculator
Courtesy: IBM
Corporation
Under
the pressure of business growth, some companies had been
hiring men trained as rapid mental calculators. These
men set the performance standards for early adding machines
to surpass.
After
masses of government census data had been quickly and
automatically processed by the Hollerith machines, large
industries now began applying the machines to their own
data-handling problems.
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