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== Computer equipment ==
[[File:Univac I at Census Bureau with two operators.jpg|thumb|Census Bureau employees tabulate data using one of the agency's UNIVAC computers, {{circa|1960}}.]]

The [[1890 United States census|1890 census]] was the first to use the electric tabulating machines invented by [[Herman Hollerith]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/history/www/notable_alumni/010944.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090713005237/http://www.census.gov/history/www/notable_alumni/010944.html|url-status=dead|title=Herman Hollerith|archivedate=July 13, 2009}}</ref><ref>[https://www.census.gov/history/www/overview/012280.html History 1890] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090503111938/http://www.census.gov/history/www/overview/012280.html |date=May 3, 2009 }} US Census Bureau.</ref> For 1890–1940 details, see {{cite book |author1-link=Leon E. Truesdell | last= Truesdell |first = Leon E. |title = The Development of Punch Card Tabulation in the Bureau of the Census, 1890–1940: With outlines of actual tabulation programs | publisher = [[United States Government Printing Office|U.S. GPO]] | year = 1965}} In 1946, knowing of the bureau's funding of Hollerith and, later, [[Powers Accounting Machine Company|Powers]], [[John Mauchly]] approached the bureau about early funding for [[UNIVAC]] development.<ref>{{cite book |last=Stern |first=Nancy |title= From ENIAC to UNIVAC: An appraisal of the Eckert-Mauchly Computers |publisher=Digital Press|year =1981 |isbn =978-0-932376-14-5}}</ref> A [[UNIVAC I]] computer was accepted by the bureau in 1951.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bashe |first=Charles J. |display-authors=et al |title=IBM's Early Computers |publisher=MIT |year=1986 |isbn=978-0-262-02225-5 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/ibmsearlycompute00bash }}</ref>