Sunday, September 19, 2010

Computers from Swedish elections.


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Today was the Swedish election and here are some pics I took of various computers that passed by in the archive material that was rolling on the tv while showing some of the Swedish elections from the last century.

It's pretty impressive that already in the 1960s they were using computers to count some of the votes!.

The one with the blinking buttons appears to be: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360

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