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Description: Covers the earliest ways of encoding data up to the cards used in voting systems today.
Douglas W. Jones's punched card index Punched cards were, in the 1960's the universal symbol of computing, and even in the 1930's, they were a symbol of modernity. Today, cards are all but forgotten, surviving in a few applicatons such as turnpike toll receipts and automatic voting systems.
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activated: 30-Mar-1988
last updated: 06-Jan-2014
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