BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS
HISTORY OF COMPUTERS
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Herman Hollerith
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Hollerith Herman
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Dimitrios Kontos
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Seymour Cray
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Detailed explanation-1: -Invented by Herman Hollerith, the machine was developed to help process data for the 1890 U.S. Census.
Detailed explanation-2: -Herman Hollerith’s impressive results earned him the contract to process and tabulate 1890 census data. Modified versions of his technology would continue to be used at the Census Bureau until replaced by computers in the 1950s.
Detailed explanation-3: -Herman Hollerith, (born February 29, 1860, Buffalo, New York, U.S.-died November 17, 1929, Washington, D.C.), American inventor of a tabulating machine that was an important precursor of the electronic computer.
Detailed explanation-4: -During the 1880s the engineer Herman Hollerith devised a set of machines for compiling data from the United States Census.
Detailed explanation-5: -Herman Hollerith invented and developed a punch-card tabulation machine system that revolutionized statistical computation. Born in Buffalo, New York, Hollerith enrolled in the City College of New York at age 15 and graduated from the Columbia School of Mines with distinction at the age of 19.