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was examining the process used by the Navy to produce Air Almanacs. Deciding that the manual computation techniques used were too slow and error prone, he recommended automating the process with existing punched card based unit record equipment. One of the hardest problems was getting a high-quality
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accounting machines with special modifications were used, but he wanted something better. In 1941 Eckert developed a specification for a card-driven composing typewriter and asked IBM to design and build it.
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The first Electromatic Table Printing Machine was delivered to him in 1945. It produced it first Air Almanac in 1946.
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that depressed the keys. Printed output could then be photographically reproduced on a
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control panel was used for programming and formatting of the printout.
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was a typesetting-quality printer, consisting of a modified
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containing the table (calculated and punched by other
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