The Importance of Machines in the Census

The US Census bought a whole shitload of these machines and they finished the 1890 Census in six years. Machines got more sophisticated automatic feed, you know, card sorting, arithmetic operation. They would print out specific statistics rather than have dials. You can store a ton of data about race. Well, the Nazis were fond of that. Yeah. IBM guys went out to install these in certain locations in Germany and occupied Poland in order to keep accurate records of,. don't worry about it. It was just trying to check fair to consumption.