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Powers-Samas was a British company which sold unit record equipment.
Blank pre-printed 40-column Powers-Samas cards, as used by the Botanical Society of the British Isles to store information on plant species
Powers-Samas accounting machine
International Computers and Tabulators or ICT was a British computer manufacturer, formed in 1959 by a merger of the British Tabulating Machine Company and Powers-Samas. In 1963 it acquired the busine
Powers-Samas
…by the British Armed Forces and other government departments. In 1959, it merged with the competing British Tabulating Machine Company (BTM) to form International Computers and Tabulators (ICT). Powers-Samas machines detected the holes in punched cards mechanically, unlike IBM equipment where holes in punched cards are detected by…
ICT logo, early 1960s
ICT share certificate, 1961