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1889 – Herman Hollerith obtains a patent for his Tabulating machine. It’s a punch card system that will be used in compiling consensus statistics beginning in 1890.Wikazine – Full show notes for January 8

• the DOJ drops the IBM anti-trust case
• Night Trap will get re-released when the video game industry puts out the new rating system.
• Netgear is founded
• Palm Pre is announced