Jerry Yeager <jerry at browseryshop.com> wrote: > Have you forgotten that the Nazi party began collecting this type of > information about citizens before they began doing what they did?
And they did it with computers, Hollerith punch card machines, made and programmed and serviced by IBM, even during the war. During the 30's they were used for census data, and then used to round up the Jews. I just read the book while on vacation last month - "IBM and the Holocaust" by Edwin Black: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0609607995/qid=1037741377/sr=2-2/ref= sr_2_2/103-0784935-0865435 Allan Atherton The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
