The Hollerith Tabulating Machine Company was incorporated in 1896, after Herman Hollerith invented the punch card and the tabulating machine that read the holes in the card.
In 1911 it was merged with two other data-processing technology companies and was called the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, changed in 1924 to IBM. In the 1950s the company developed an electronic way to read the punch cards, this was the beginning of modern computing.
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