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Visual system for punched card reading in textile industry [PDF]

open access: yesAutomatika : časopis za automatiku, mjerenje, elektroniku, računarstvo i komunikacije, 2017
In this paper we present a novel design and implementation of a vision-based system for reading punched cards. The new system is designed to visually retrieve information stored in punched cards and store them in digital format. The system is dedicated to types of cards used in mechanical Jacquard looms widely spread in different textile industries ...
Hafez, A. H. Abdul, Sharif, Ayman
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Structuring information work: Ferranti and Martins Bank, 1952-1968 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The adoption of large-scale computers by the British retail banks in the 1960s required a first-time dislocation of customer accounting from its confines in the branches, where it had been dealt with by paper-based and mechanized information systems, to ...
Martin, I
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Planning the mechanization of the bank

open access: yesPSL Quarterly Review, 2014
The rapid progress of technology in the field of office machines and computers, affords a new opportunity for banks to reorganise their working systems.
P. CASTIGLIONI P.
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Instrumentation [PDF]

open access: yes, 1953
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Gull, C.D.
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From Punched Cards to "Big Data": A Social History of Database Populism

open access: yescommunication +1, 2012
Since the diffusion of the punched card tabulator following the 1890 U.S. Census, mass-scale information processing has been alternately a site of opportunity, ambivalence and fear in the American imagination.
Kevin Driscoll
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Tracing the outlier: digital objects and algorithmic sorting in Rossella Biscotti’s Other

open access: yesJournal of Aesthetics & Culture, 2019
The relatively new Big Data systems, which operate at different levels, such as modes of monitoring, bulk analysis or techniques for data mining, are increasingly used by corporations and agencies to make sense of massive collections of data, as they ...
Maja Bak Herrie
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Trailblazers in Electromechanical Computing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Over the last six decades, electronic computing has spread so deeply in science and technology to became a fundamental tool for studying, researching and designing.
Guarnieri, Massimo
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A Punched-Card System for the Laboratory

open access: yesClinical Chemistry, 1962
Abstract A punched-card system was developed to simplify the administrative aspects of the clinical chemistry laboratory. In it a three-part requisition and samples are matched and given a laboratory number. The third copy of the original laboratory requsition is a charge card also used as a name file for the day. Prepunched cards, coded
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A Punched-Card Reference System for Biochemists

open access: yesClinical Chemistry, 1964
Abstract A simple binomial-code punched-card system for biochemists is described. Employing major and minor classifications, the system can handle a total of 812 subjects in two rows of 29 holes each. Enough theoretical and practical technics are illustrated to enable the novice to devise a system suited to his own needs.
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