# Paper Machines

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- Book: [Paper Machines](https://www.bookquiver.com/markus-krajewski/paper-machines) ([Paper Machines.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/markus-krajewski/paper-machines.md))
- Authors: [Markus Krajewski](https://www.bookquiver.com/markus-krajewski), [Peter Krapp](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-krapp)
- Publisher: the_mit_press
- ISBN: 978-02-6255-085-7
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2023-12-26
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Why the card catalog—a “paper machine” with rearrangeable elements—can be regarded as a precursor of the computer. Today on almost every desk in every office sits a computer. Eighty...