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Fri, 10 January 2020 13:41

hancock4
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Powers was a rival to IBM in punched card systems.

here is an ad for them.
https://archive.org/details/Nations-Business-1929-09/page/n1 29

Thu, 06 February 2020 15:30

hancock4
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Thu, 06 February 2020 16:35

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Originally posted by: Bob Eager

On Thu, 06 Feb 2020 12:30:15 -0800, hancock4 wrote:

> On Friday, January 10, 2020 at 1:41:20 PM UTC-5, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com
> wrote:
>> Powers was a rival to IBM in punched card systems.
>>
>> here is an ad for them.
>> https://archive.org/details/Nations-Business-1929-09/page/n1 29
>
> More Powers/Remington Rand ads:
> https://archive.org/details/Nations-Business-1929-01/page/n1 45/mode/2up
>
> https://archive.org/details/Nations-Business-1929-02/page/n1 59/mode/2up
>
> also, NCR ad from same time frame
> https://archive.org/details/Nations-Business-1930-06/page/n1 79/mode/2up

I was reading about Powers Samas and BTM today - they eventually merged,
and with Ferranti became ICT in the UK.

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