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The IBM 610 was a very primitive machine, the programing of which was done with a plug board ( similar to the ones used for IBM accounting machines in the early 1950s ) and a punched paper tape.
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The agency was happy to share my history : I learned my parents were of Polish, Russian and German ancestry; my mother operated a Comptometer ( an accounting machine used in offices in the 1950s ); my father served in the U . S . Navy.
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In Europe, Powers established European operations in 1915 through the Accounting and Tabulating Machine Company of Great Britain Limited, and in 1929 renamed to Powers-Samas Accounting Machine Limited ( Samas, full name Societe Anonyme des Machines a Statistiques, had been the Power's sales agency in France ).
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In 1915 Powers Tabulating Machine Company established European operations through the "'Accounting and Tabulating Machine Company of Great Britain Limited "', in 1929 renamed "'Powers-Samas Accounting Machine Limited "'( "'Samas "', full name "'Societe Anonyme des Machines a Statistiques "', had been the Power's sales agency in France, formed in 1922 ).
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Another reason was cost or availability of equipment : for example in 1965 an IBM 1620 computer did not have a printer as standard equipment, so it was normal in such installations to punch printed output onto cards, using two cards per line if required and print these cards on an IBM 407 accounting machine and then throw the cards away.
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As a major part of the Corps activity centered around procurement, provisioning and stores accounting, moves were taken in the mid 1960s to replace stubby pencils and rubbers with the introduction of ICL computer system was introduced, this provided a paper tape from the accounting machine which would then be uploaded daily in to a mainframe to provide provisioning and reporting data.
