!!!Elektronische Datenverarbeitung, EDV

Electronic Data Processing, EDP; Early developments of EDP in Austria 
were closely connected with the Census: Austria and the USA were the 
first countries to employ the Hollerith system for census-taking in 
1890. H. Hollerith assisted O.  Schaeffler, a pioneer in the field of 
telegraphy and telephony, in building 12 counting machines in Vienna 
and supervising the evaluation of census data. Schaeffler developed a 
programming machine with cables and plugs for which he obtained the 
first world patent for a programming device in 1896.

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G.  Tauschek made important contributions to punch-card accounting, 
counting and calculating machines, for which he obtained many patents, 
169 of which he sold to IBM. He combined written and punched data and 
saw accounting as a system that was to be optimised as an integral 
whole, and also paved the way for the development of magnetic tape 
storage.

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H.  Zemanek built the first Austrian mainframe computer (called 
"Mailuefterl"), which was based on the use of transistors with a 
highly flexible instruction code. After 1960, most research and 
development was carried out on software (compiler designs for 
non-numeric tasks were also developed by the "Mailuefterl" team). The 
IBM 7772 voice-response unit was developed in the Vienna branch of IBM 
laboratories. Other achievements include developments in connection 
with the syntax and semantics of the IBM-programming language ("Vienna 
Definition Language" (VDL) and the "Vienna Development Method" (VDM)).

!Literature
H. Zemanek, Das geistige Umfeld der Informationstechnik, 
1992.


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