Difference between revisions of "History of Computers - Electronic Tabulating Machine"
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Revision as of 13:44, 28 September 2008
The 1890 Census posed a problem to the US government. A recent population explosion in the US drove the estimated time required to tabulate the census to 13 years- problematic because the constitution required a census to be completed every 10 years.[1]
