Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929 by Peter Krapp, Markus Krajewski

History and Foundations of Information Science

Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929

Peter Krapp, Markus Krajewski

224 pages 2011

3 editions

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Why the card catalog—a "paper machine" with rearrangeable elements—can be regarded as a precursor of the computer.Today on almost every desk in every office sits a computer. Eighty years ago, desktops were equipped with a nonelectronic data proces...

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