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Report of investigation into need for replacing punched card machines used by HO...
Catalogue reference: HO 337/19
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This record is about the Report of investigation into need for replacing punched card machines used by HO... dating from 1962 July in the series Home Office and Joint (Home Office and Metropolitan Police) ADP Unit: Automatic Data.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HO 337/19
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1962 July
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Description (What the record is about)
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Report of investigation into need for replacing punched card machines used by HO Statistical Branch: supplementary study No 1, nature of criminal statistics (including motoring offences, offences of drunkeness and quartering, supplementary and published criminal statistics) together with proposals for processing the work on an ICT 1301 magnetic tape computer
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Report No 26
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Topics
- Computing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C1657587/
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HO 337
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