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  1. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!usc!rpi!gatech!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!news.UVic.CA!spang.Camosun.BC.CA!dbarker
  3. From: dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker)
  4. Subject: Re: Just how old is CompSci anyway? (How many Nobel Prizes has IBM won?)
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan7.180648.16695@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
  6. Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
  7. X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
  8. References: <1igij5INNlsm@controversy.math.lsa.umich.edu>
  9. Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 18:06:48 GMT
  10. Lines: 17
  11.  
  12. spexet@math.lsa.umich.edu (D. Robert Spexet II) writes:
  13. : In article <1993Jan6.214450.2096@spang.Camosun.BC.CA> dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:
  14. : >The system which improved the processing of the US census was Hermann
  15. : >Hollerith's punched card, but it wasn't really a computer.
  16. : 
  17. : It might be noted, however, that the company that Hollerith founded to make
  18. : the punched-card machines later became IBM Corporation.
  19.  
  20. Accepted, but my point was that the previous poster had confused
  21. Babbage with Hollerith. There *is* a significant difference.
  22.  
  23. And Hollerith di not, of course, invent the concept of the punched
  24. card. That was Jacquard.
  25. --
  26. Real:  Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept., Camosun College, Victoria B.C.
  27. Email: (dbarker@spang.camosun.bc.ca)
  28. Phone: +1 604 370 4452
  29.