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Re: Remington Rand punched card

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On 2019-12-05, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote:

> IBM wasn't the only punched card business.  Remington
> Rand also had a line of punched card tabulating machines.
>
> Here are two ads for it:
>
> https://archive.org/details/Nations-Business-1934-01/page/n55
>
> https://archive.org/details/Nations-Business-1934-08/page/n45

If you zoom in on the second one you can see the same 90-column
cards that I played with a bit in the late '60s.  The cards are
the same dimensions as IBM's 80-column cards, and have the same
12 rows, but the 45 columns are divided into upper and lower tiers -
perfect for 6-bit codes.

> Supposedly, IBM integrated its punched card machines with
> its new computers, but Remington kept them separate.
> This hurt Remington's computers.
>
> I don't know the detailed history of Remington Rand,
> but I can't help but suspect it was not a well run
> company after WW II.  I know they hired Gen. Leslie Groves
> basically as an expensive figurehead to go around and
> make semi-political speeches that the CEO liked.  One
> books cites that Univac and ERA were basically two
> separate competing divisions.
>
> Maybe things got better when they merged with Sperry.

IBM was definitely better organized, although Sperry-Univac
felt friendlier.

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Remington Rand punched card hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2019-12-05 12:29 -0800
  Re: Remington Rand punched card Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2019-12-05 23:09 +0000
    Re: Remington Rand punched card hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2019-12-06 13:30 -0800
      Re: Remington Rand punched card Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2019-12-06 13:45 -0800
        Re: Remington Rand punched card Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2019-12-06 13:49 -0800
        Re: Remington Rand punched card hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2019-12-06 14:27 -0800
          Re: Remington Rand punched card Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2019-12-06 19:20 -0800
      Re: Remington Rand punched card Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2019-12-06 13:46 -0800
      Re: Remington Rand punched card scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2019-12-08 17:08 +0000
        Re: Remington Rand punched card Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2019-12-08 18:59 +0000
        Re: Remington Rand punched card Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2019-12-08 20:57 -0800

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