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Barcode Reader
History
The first barcode scanner was employed and the first product barcoded in 1974.
In 1932 Wallace Flint started a project at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration to better automate customer purchasing. As punch cards were all the rage at the time, the system they envisioned used a catalog of items with corresponding punch cards for each one. The customer would hand the cards to a clerk who would load them into a reader. The item would then be found and retrieved from a fully automated warehouse.An itemized bill was automatically produced. In spite of its promise, punch card systems were expensive.