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TABULATING [2 records]

Record 1 2001-10-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Office Machinery
DEF

Printing of totals.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mécanographie
DEF

Opération par laquelle une machine comptable à cartes perforées récapitule les données contenues dans une série de cartes et n'imprime sous forme de copie en clair, que le total récapitulatif.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Máquinas de oficina
DEF

Operación realizada por las tabuladoras y resultado impreso obtenido mediante aquella.

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Record 2 1999-01-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
  • Office Machinery
DEF

Refers to equipment using punched cards for data processing without a central computer. Tab equipment includes sorters, collators, calculators, accounting machines, and other card oriented electromechanical devices. Also referred to as unit record equipment.

OBS

See "tabulating equipment" in ROCOMP.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)
  • Mécanographie

Spanish

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