Punched Card Machines | |
Hollerith and the origins, c 1880-1907 | |
The British Tabulating Machine Company, 1907-1919 | |
Manufacturing at home, the 1920s | |
Heyday of the punched-card machine industry, the 1930s | |
An interlude: the Second World War, 1939-1945 | |
Pent-up demand, 1945-1949 | |
Electronic Machines, 1950-1954 | |
Computers and the merger, 1955-1958 | |
Computers | |
The decline of the tabulator, 1959-1961 | |
Negotiations and mergers, 1961-1963 | |
The response to the IBM System/360, 1964-1965 | |
Government relations and the formation of ICL, 1964-1968 | |
ICL and the New Range, 1968-1972 | |
Government launching aid for the New Range, 1973-1975 | |
Rapid growth in a changing market, 1975-1979 | |
Convergence in the 1980s | |
Summing up: ICL and the evolving information business | |
Notes | |
The TMC-BTM agreements | |
List of Directors | |
Index | |
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