And the size was the same size as a 1900 dollar bill... No Susan B. Anthony back then.
-----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Frazier Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 2:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How comments treated by DIRMAINT 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. -- Stephen Frazier Information Technology Unit Oklahoma Department of Corrections 3400 Martin Luther King Oklahoma City, Ok, 73111-4298 Tel.: (405) 425-2549 Fax: (405) 425-2554 Pager: (405) 690-1828 email: stevef%doc.state.ok.us
