>>>>You should have seen those Hollerith machines crank!
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>>Actually, they did have Morse "Code" way back when.
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>Eric;
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>Several of my interests in life - Amateur Radio, Radio Teletype, Communications, Engineering, Computers, and history.
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>First use of punched paper to control weaving mills - 1725
>Morse Code - 1837
>Telephone - 1876
>Dr. Hollerith - 1890 (U.S. Census, using punched cards)
>Radio Teletype - 1903
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>Each of the above used some form of hole punched in paper or cardstock to convey intelligence.
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>Tom

So, it's possible that a company could have been developing some form of software for 275 years. I'm getting ill just thinking about it...