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

History and Foundations of Information Science

Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929

Markus Krajewski with Peter Krapp (Translator)

224 pages hardcover 2011

3 editions

nonfiction informative inspiring medium-paced
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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 proc...

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