#hollerith

☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange
2024-10-29

@gminks an IBM punchcard (Hollerith) from my undergrad years writing one of the first computer langauges, FORTRAN.

#hollerith / #HermanHollerith/ #IBM / #FORTRAN <flickr.com/photos/bootload/247>

TheCityDweller :verified_gay:toor@citydweller.social
2023-09-08

@mcmenguc The spirit of #Hollerith is still alive.
Hollerith Germany (IBM) enabled the registration and therefore systematic murder of Jews during the Third Reich because they sold the punchcard registration, counting and sorting machines enabling this. And they knew it.

2023-08-02

Hollerith’s Law: Asserts that as an online discussion about computers grows longer (regardless of topic or scope), the probability of “punch cards” increases.

#unix #law #punchcards #linux #hollerith #online #discussion #hpc #cloud

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Hollerith
André Ourednikandre_ourednik
2023-06-11

punch card machine in a prison courtyard.
Drawing by Franz

Hollerith punch card machine a prison courtyard. Drawing by Franz Kafka according to MidjourneyHollerith punch card machine a prison courtyard. Drawing by Franz Kafka according to Midjourney
2022-11-27

@AndrzejWasowski

#TWIRI (#TheWayIRememberIt) from the 60s, $ was used to $ignify (#Hollerith) $trings.

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