home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!lsa.umich.edu!spexet
- From: spexet@math.lsa.umich.edu (D. Robert Spexet II)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Just how old is CompSci anyway? (How many Nobel Prizes has IBM won?)
- Date: 7 Jan 1993 06:28:53 GMT
- Organization: University of Michigan, Mathematics Department, Ann Arbor
- Lines: 17
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <1igij5INNlsm@controversy.math.lsa.umich.edu>
- References: <1993Jan6.052452.28141@umr.edu> <1993Jan6.214450.2096@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: supernova.math.lsa.umich.edu
-
- In article <1993Jan6.214450.2096@spang.Camosun.BC.CA> dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:
- >The system which improved the processing of the US census was Hermann
- >Hollerith's punched card, but it wasn't really a computer.
-
- It might be noted, however, that the company that Hollerith founded to make
- the punched-card machines later became IBM Corporation.
-
- >Real: Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept., Camosun College, Victoria B.C.
- >Email: (dbarker@spang.camosun.bc.ca)
- >Phone: +1 604 370 4452
-
-
- --
- D. Robert Spexet II, N0OKR Internet: spexet@umich.edu, dspexet@attmail.com
- Department of Mathematics BITnet: user68xr@umichum.bitnet
- The University of Michigan UUCP: uunet!mailrus!math.lsa.umich.edu!spexet
- Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 ATTMail: !dspexet
-