IBM early Card Reader and 1949 electronic Calculator

[tdukhovny]

"a small but powerful computer occupied a half of the second floor."

\grin\

[t1mTV]

this is the kind of stuff the nazis used. good to know the technology was not going to waste!

[Esternamornezz]

That calculator looked like a blob of spaghetti.

I'd love to see one that worked...they showed collators many times in old B/W Dragnet series, it was always fascinating, but what exactly did all that stuff do?

[luridplanet]

@Esternamornezz You could sort data by different types, by age, by sex or whatever type was coded on the card. Pretty crude, but much faster then trying to do it by hand

[sasho54]

Very beautiful, but turn them on and demonstrate, please!

[blunklaura]

funny how times go by, things change, eh?