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Punched cards for processing the United States census in 1890 -- Reshaping punched cards for general statistics in the United States -- Shaping punched cards for bookkeeping in the United States : the challengers -- The Computing Tabulating Recording Company -- Declining punched cards for European census processing -- Embracing punched cards for general statistics -- Roads to European punched card bookkepping -- Registers for mass society

Part 6: The Making of a Nordic Computing Industry ; International audience ; The paper analyzes John Presper Eckert and John William Mauchly's endeavours to design, sell, and build the revolutionary new technology of the first large, commercial computers. It discusses how Eckert and Mauchly's conceptualization of the computer grew out of their ENIAC and EDVAC projects at University of Pennsylvania. They incorporated their own business to gain profit from production and attain the freedom needed to develop their revolutionary new computer technology through a series of small, separate computer projects with private and government customers. It approaches innovation as a chaotic process and uses uncertainty to conceptualize the basic relations between actors and organizations.