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The British Tabulating Machine Company (BTM) was a firm which manufactured and sold Hollerith unit record equipment and other data-processing equipment. During World War II, BTM constructed some 200 "bombes", machines used at Bletchley Park to break the German Enigma machine ciphers.

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British Tabulating Machine Company

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machines from the US Tabulating Machine Company (later to become IBM). By 1909, the company had been renamed the "British Tabulating Machine Company Limited"...

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Tabulating machine

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Electric Tabulating System, specializing in punched card data processing equipment. In 1896 he incorporated the Tabulating Machine Company. In that year...

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APEXC

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Board of Mathematical Machines, Oslo ('N' likely stands for 'Norway'), also known as NUSSE APE(H)C: British Tabulating Machine Company (It is unclear what...

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Bombe

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design and construction was the work of Harold Keen of the British Tabulating Machine Company. The first bombe, code-named Victory, was installed in March...

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International Computers and Tabulators

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Tabulators or ICT was a British computer manufacturer, formed in 1959 by a merger of the British Tabulating Machine Company (BTM) and Powers-Samas. In...

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Harold Keen

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began studying Electrical Engineering. In 1912 he joined the British Tabulating Machine Company (BTM), established to import and assemble American punched...

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Unit record equipment

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to market Hollerith's machines. 1905: Hollerith reincorporates the Tabulating Machine Company as The Tabulating Machine Company 1906: Hollerith Type 1...

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Cantab

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Cambridge-based home computer company CANTAB, the codename for the code breaking British Bombe made by the British Tabulating Machine Company This disambiguation...

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Hollerith Electronic Computer

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by the British Tabulating Machine Company (BTM) and was based on a design by Professor Andrew Booth of Birkbeck College, London. It was Britain's first...

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BTM

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BTM may refer to: British Tabulating Machine Company, former data-processing equipment company British Talent Management, a record label founded by Miles...

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Powers Accounting Machine

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producer of tabulating machines. It was a predecessor to the Unisys corporation. In 1890, the government began leasing tabulating machines from Herman...

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Spirella

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Airchute Company expanded its production of parachutes into the Spirella Building and women working for the British Tabulating Machine Company secretly...

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The Imitation Game

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Harold Keen of the British Tabulating Machine Company. Not one of them was built at Bletchley Park. The overall plot arc in which the British cryptographers...

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IBM

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2021. IBM was founded in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR), a holding company of manufacturers of record-keeping and measuring...

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Kathleen Booth

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manufactured by the British Tabulating Machine Company, the small scale of the Birkbeck group did not place it in the front rank of British computer activity...

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Cedric Charles Dickens

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trips to the Caribbean by banana boat, Dickens joined the British Tabulating Machine Company in 1937. Dickens joined the RNVR on the outbreak of World...

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History of computing hardware

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design and construction was the work of Harold Keen of the British Tabulating Machine Company. It was a substantial development from a device that had been...

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Tommy Flowers

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Welchman preferred the views of Wynn-Williams and Keene of the British Tabulating Machine Company (BTM) who had designed and constructed the Bombe and wanted...

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Machine

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actuators that make robotic systems possible. Charles Babbage designed machines to tabulate logarithms and other functions in 1837. His Difference engine can...

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Arthur Humphreys

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Limited and a long-time member of the British computer industry. He joined the British Tabulating Machine Company in 1940, and was involved in the negotiations...

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Dora Metcalf

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joined British Tabulating Machine Company (BTM), and founded the Service Bureaux Division, at the same time continuing to run her own successful company, Calculating...

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Cryptanalysis of the Enigma

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Bletchley Park in September 1939. Harold "Doc" Keen of the British Tabulating Machine Company (BTM) in Letchworth (35 kilometres (22 mi) from Bletchley)...

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Indian Statistical Institute

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India was procured by ISI. This machine was of a model named HEC-2M, manufactured by British Tabulating Machine Company (BTM). As per the agreement with...

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International Computers Limited

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two UK companies that had competed with each other throughout the 1930s and 1940s during the punched card era: British Tabulating Machine Company (BTM)...

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Harry Dagnall

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Dagnall was a technical writer in the patent department of the British Tabulating Machine Company which became ICT and ICL. He made frequent contributions to...

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