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The year 1890 is significant in the history of computing primarily due to the work of Herman Hollerith, an American inventor and businessman. He developed a mechanical tabulator based on punched cards, which played a crucial role in processing and analyzing data for the 1890 U.S. Census. His system used cards with holes punched in them to represent data points, which a machine could read and process, drastically improving the efficiency of census data collection and analysis compared to previous methods.

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