History DefinedNov 14, 2022
A photo of an engineer wiring an early IBM computer, 1958 by Berenice Abbott.
Show threadRussell Cameron Thomas

@historydefined Well, actually... it is not a computer.

It is "Alphabetic Accounting" machine, from about 1934, when IBM produced tabulating machines, long before they produced computers.

https://www.righto.com/2017/11/identifying-early-ibm-computer-in.html

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