And the size was the same size as a 1900 dollar bill... No Susan B. Anthony
back then.

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The way I heard it was that there were 80 questions on the 1900 census.
Machines were built to 
process the census data. As the machines were there they got used for other
things.

RPN01 wrote:
> I’m not sure why Mr. Hollerith chose 80 columns, but 
> it has really hung on. 
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