Input-process-output (IPO) analysis method was developed when 80-column Hollerith cards were popular as input/output devices for mainframe computers.
But the suit says that when Dehomag opened a plant near Berlin in 1934, Mr. Heidinger gave a speech touting the use of Hollerith cards to record "individual characteristics of every single member of the nation," expressed pride in giving Hitler data that could be used in "corrective interventions," and pledged to "follow his orders blindly".
By using a unique secret code, he estimated he could boil his research down from what would have taken 20 to 25 pages to a one-page grid, information that was punched into Hollerith cards and tabulated using an IBM computer.
And, along the side of the barrel, the serial number of each piece is displayed using the numbers 0-9 five five original Hollerith punch cards: Hollerith machines, named after the American inventor Herman Hollerith, used the cards to record Enigma decryption information.
The way to fill out the Hollerith punch cards was at first by a hand punch, a device that looked like one of today's credit card sliders.
She acknowledged that the decision to provide the Hollerith punch cards, was "much more difficult".
Soon railroads, department stores and other businesses adopted Hollerith punch cards to track customers and cargoes.
The answer is a strip of cardboard called a Hollerith card.These cards were, in effect, the hard drives of the first corporate computers.
In a competition between them it took 72 hours to record all the data on to Hollerith's punched cards, which was not vastly faster than the 144 hours and 100 hours taken by the other two machines.The real advantage of Hollerith's system became clear, however, when it came to manipulating the stored data and compiling the results.
