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...March to twelve by the end of July. Moreover, many classified as deserters in the past had simply gone home to join the army unit closest to the family-and were almost impossible to track. The U.S. command in Saigon is setting up a punch-card system for the regular Vietnamese army so that it will know where all its men are at any given time. Meanwhile, U.S. observers like to remind critics that the Union Army ran up a total of 200,000 deserters during the Civil...
Computers have been used infrequently in the past to pair up dates for specific dances. But Match's punch-card cupid has far larger horizons, deals in wide areas and adapts to any occasion. Founders Vaughn Morrill and Jeff Tarr launched their enterprise last February on a shoestring budget of $1,250 (Tarr won $500 of it on Password, the TV quiz program). They worked out a questionnaire that would both describe the writer and his "ideal mate," then programmed an IBM 1401 computer to pair them...
...trading punch cards and crossing calculators in a hotjduel with IBM, has so thrived on the struggle that its sales have gone from $7,000,000 to $68 million in 1962. The company took its name from Norwegian Inventor Fredrik Bull, whose patents it acquired to make its first punch-card machine; it is now controlled by the Callies family (paper mills). It turned out a tabulator that was for years the fastest on the market, brought out the first computer to use compact germanium diodes as well as tubes and developed a Gamma 60 computer so electronically marvelous that...
Seventeen years ago, when two University of Pennsylvania professors developed the first electronic computer, International Business Machines sniffed that it had no commercial future. But in the early '50s, when computers made by Remington-Rand began replacing IBM punch-card machines. IBM rushed into building computers and quickly took over most of the market. Lured by IBM's success, other office-equipment makers and electronics companies rushed into computers and waited for the profits to roll in. With the exception of a lone company, they are still waiting...
...United States Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The Mating Machine, a comedy about a marriage bureau that operates by computer. The punch-card pairing: Diana Lynn and John Ericson...