Talk:Conrad Gessner

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message: Some suggestions for improvement as the article is expanded:
*Template:Infobox Scientist should be added 
*Lead needs expanding to cover all aspects of the subject's life and research
*Article should be divided into appropriate subheadings
*Information on research should be expanded
*A list of works would be useful
*References should be expanded and preferably converted to inline format
*External links present which could be used to expand article
Espresso Addict 20:04, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
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message: Book title: Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929 
Markus Krajewski (Author), Peter Krapp (Translator)
from the Amazon description: "Today on almost every desk in every office sits a computer. Eighty years ago, desktops were equipped with a nonelectronic data processing machine: a card file. In Paper Machines, Markus Krajewski traces the evolution of this proto-computer of rearrangeable parts (file cards) that became ubiquitous in offices between the world wars. The story begins with Konrad Gessner, a sixteenth-century Swiss polymath who described a new method of processing data: to cut up a sheet of handwritten notes into slips of paper, with one fact or topic per slip, and arrange as desired. In the late eighteenth century, the card catalog became the librarian's answer to the threat of information overload. ..."
That Amazon description, probably from the book's jacket, reads as crediting Gessner with the invention of what came to be know as the "unit record" (I've not looked at the book). 69.106.232.158 (talk) 08:23, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
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message: Major sections of this article are not written in the wikipedia style and should be rewritten. 1.146.60.5 (talk) 14:38, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
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