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In the years 1890–1935 the budding science of informatics was still completely overshadowed by the devices and machines that were intended to facilitate working with numbers and other data. The classic demands made of engineers predominated: building reliable implementations at sensible prices.
The problems encountered were those of information processing on the one hand and those of program control on the other, but one of these generally outweighed the other and often there was no attempt at reconciling them.
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Bauer, F.L. (2010). After 1890: In Thrall to Mechanical and Electromechanical Devices. In: Origins and Foundations of Computing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02992-9_4
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