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| Date: | 01 27 1960 |
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| Description: | A farmer observes the processed results of the workings of an early computer or data machine. The machine was used to process and to organize data on a her... |
| Date: | 09 26 1984 |
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| Description: | A woman uses an early commercial computer network that allows travel agents to book their own flights without the use of a telephone. |
| Date: | 09 20 1956 |
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| Description: | Katharine Mather of the Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station checks a computer analysis of the composition of cement. |
| Date: | 04 11 1986 |
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| Description: | Schoolgirl watches the monitor as she types her story on a word processor. |
| Date: | 05 19 1989 |
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| Description: | Two young boys in a grocery store figuring out prices of food with a calculator. |
| Date: | 11 10 1963 |
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| Description: | Male students run data cards through a computer to match couples for a school dance. |
| Date: | 11 13 1963 |
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| Description: | A question is fed into a "computer" created by the mathematics club at John Marshall Junior High School. This was a project in observance of American Educa... |
| Date: | 12 14 1967 |
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| Description: | A secretary in the pathology department at St. Joseph's Hospital working at a new computer. |
| Date: | 1977 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for International trucks featuring a color illustration of a computer monitor with arms placing trucks on a map of the United States. In... |
| Date: | 12 07 1948 |
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| Description: | The new Western Union equipment in the Madison office which is connected with an 'electric brain' in Minneapolis, permitting faster transmission of message... |
| Date: | 08 28 1984 |
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| Description: | Mary Beaudry, a temporary employee at International Business Machines, works on word-processing and computer equipment. |
| Date: | 11 10 1960 |
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| Description: | A student studies key punch operation in a data processing class at Milwaukee Vocational and Adult Schools. She is seated at a very large computer. |
| Date: | 12 15 1981 |
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| Description: | Captain Charles Biele and an unidentified staffer in the Navy facility at Clam Lake known as Project ELF. |
| Date: | 12 15 1981 |
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| Description: | Captain Charles Biele and an unidentified staffer inside the Navy's facility at Clam Lake known as Project ELF. |
| Date: | 08 29 1995 |
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| Description: | Congressman David R. Obey putting on protective clothing for a tour of the Cray Computer facility. |
| Date: | 08 29 1995 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey touring the new Cray Computer facility. Obey had been involved in securing federal funding for the company. |
| Date: | 05 1998 |
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| Description: | As part of his support for education, Congressman David Obey visited many schools within his district. Here he observed elementary school students in Wisco... |
| Date: | 08 17 1981 |
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| Description: | View from behind of a young woman wearing a t-shirt with the title Dungeon Mistress printed on the back while she plays an adventure game called Telengard ... |
| Date: | 03 1990 |
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| Description: | Theresa Lions Club present Joey Bernhard, who is blind, a device to learn braille. |
| Date: | 08 29 1958 |
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| Description: | R. E. Gilbert posing behind a desk-sized IBM machine, known as a integrated-data processor. Gilbert holds in his hand a punched paper roll containing up-to... |
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