Gustav Tauschek
{{Short description|Informatician, inventor, engineer}}
Gustav Tauschek (April 29, 1899, Vienna, Austria – February 14, 1945, Zürich, Switzerland) was an Austrian pioneer of Information technology and developed numerous improvements for punched card-based calculating machines from 1922 to 1945.
Career
=System Tauschek =
From 1926 till 1930 Tauschek developed a complete punched card-based accounting system, which was never mass-produced.{{cite book | author1= Herbert Bruderer |title=Milestones in Analog and Digital Computing |publisher= Springer International Publishing |year=2021 |page=1196 |isbn= 9783030409746 }}
The system is currently stored in the archives of the Technisches Museum Wien.
=Magnetic drum memory=
=IBM=
Throughout the 1930s Tauschek worked as a consultant to IBM. For IBM he built a reading-writing calculator and he constructed a range of data storage devices with magnetized steel plates. For IBM Tauschek also build a accounting machine that was capable of storing the records of 10,000 bank accounts.{{cite book | author1=James W. Cortada |title=Before the Computer: IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand and the Industry They Created, 1865-1956 |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=2015 |page=108 |isbn=9781400872763 }}
Later life and legacy
Gustav Tauschek died of an embolism on February 14, 1945 in a hospital in Zürich, Switzerland.
References
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External links
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- [http://www.oegig.at ÖGIG Startseite] at www.oegig.at Austrian Society for History of Informatics
- [http://www.tmw.at Technisches Museum Wien] at www.tmw.at Vienna Technical Museum
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Category:20th-century Austrian inventors