IBM had operated service bureaus in major cities since 1932 allowing users to rent time on tabulating equipment, and later computing equipment, to solve problems which couldn't justify a full-time equipment lease.
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"' " Floradora " "', also called " Keyword, " was a doubly tabulating equipment, created by IBM, to break the code over period of more than a year in 1941 and 1942.
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The Legislature has utilized the phrase " vote tabulation system " and " automatic tabulating equipment " in section 102.166 when it intended to refer to the voting system rather than the vote count.
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The Legislature has utilized the phrase " vote tabulation system " and " automatic tabulating equipment " in section 102 . 166 when it intended to refer to the voting system rather than the vote count.
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:: : : : : : " Tabulating equipment ", then, if you prefer, although I consider those to be mechanical computers, versus the current electronic computers . talk ) 21 : 39, 27 April 2012 ( UTC)
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Other languages of the era included ALGOL and Autocoder and a few years later PL / I . Assembler and COBOL were more common in mainframe business operations ( System / 360 models 30 and above ) and RPG more commonly used by customers who were in transition from tabulating equipment ( System / 360 model 20 ).
