Paper Machines
About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
26 December 2023
Summary
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 processing machine: a card file. In Paper Machines, Markus Krajewski traces the evolution of this proto-computer of rearrangeable parts (file cards) that became ubiquitous in offices between the world wars.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262550857 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262550857 |
| Author: | Markus Krajewski, Peter Krapp |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 26 December 2023 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | History and Foundations of Information Science |
About The Author
Markus Krajewski
Markus Krajewski is Associate Professor of Media History at the Bauhaus University, Weimar. He is a developer of the bibliographic software Synapsen: A Hypertextual Card Index.
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