Gustav Tauschek
Template:Short description 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.[1]
The system is currently stored in the archives of the Technisches Museum Wien.
Magnetic drum memory
In 1932 Tauschek built a magnetic drum memory.[2]
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.[3]
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
- Template:DNB portal
- ÖGIG Startseite at www.oegig.at Austrian Society for History of Informatics
- Technisches Museum Wien at www.tmw.at Vienna Technical Museum