Giant brains; or, Machines that thinkBerkeley, Edmund Callis
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Giant brains; or, Machines that think
Berkeley, Edmund Callis
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TEST SCORING MACHINE
Test Scoring Machine 94-2333-0 1939 19
May
Test Scoring Machine 32-9145-1 1946 20
Published Tests Adapted for Use with June
the IBM Electric Test Scoring Machine 27-4286-9 1948 8
In addition to the new types of punch-card machines referred to in the
above list, an elaborate punch-card calculating machine is described in
the following reference:
ECKERT, W. J., The IBM Pluggable Sequence
Relay Calculator, _Mathematical Tables and Other
Aids to Computation_, vol. 3, no. 23, July 1948,
pp. 149-161.
A description of punch-card machinery in rather a light vein is
contained in:
ANONYMOUS, Speaking of Pictures: New
Mechanical Monsters Ease _Life’s_ Growing Pains,
_Life_, Sept. 15, 1947, pp. 15-16.
ANONYMOUS, _540_, Chicago:
Time-Life-Fortune Magazine,
Subscription Fulfillment Office, 1948, 15 pp.
New types of punch-card machinery are continually coming into use.
Among them are: machines that take in punch cards and make punched
paper tape (such as teletype tape), and vice versa—useful for
transmitting punch-card information over wires; an electric typewriter
operated by punch cards—useful for preparing almanacs for sea and air
navigation, etc.; a calculator programmed by punch cards, consisting
of an assembly of a tabulator, an electronic calculating punch, and
an auxiliary storage unit, all cabled together—useful for some types
of long calculation; etc. For information about such machinery, the
manufacturers may be consulted.
PUNCH-CARD CALCULATING MACHINERY: APPLICATIONS
There are many articles in scientific journals on applications of
punch-card calculating machinery to technical problems. The fields of
engineering, education, indexing, mathematics, surveying, statistics,
and others are all represented in the following list of sample
references:
ALT, FRANZ L., Multiplication of Matrices,
_Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to
Computation_, vol. 2, no. 13, Jan. 1946,
pp. 12-13.
BAILEY, C. F., and others, Punch Cards for
Indexing Scientific Data, _Science_, vol. 104,
Aug. 23, 1946, p. 181.
BOWER, E. C., On Subdividing Tables, _Lick
Observatory Bulletin_, vol. 16, no. 455,
Nov. 1933, pp. 143-144.
BOWER, E. C., Systematic Subdivision of
Tables, _Lick Observatory Bulletin_, vol. 17,
no. 467, Apr. 1935, pp. 65-74.
CLEMENCE, G. M., and PAUL HERGET,
Optimum-Interval Punched-Card Tables,
_Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to
Computation_, vol. 1, no. 6, Apr. 1944,
pp. 173-176.
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