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.World’s Largest Vertical Letter File
THE largest vertical letter file in the world was built in Prague, Czechoslovakia. It consists of 3,000 drawers, 10 feet high, reaching from floor to ceiling and covering approximately 4,000 square feet. The drawers are all equipped with roller bearings.
“Unconventional” recording formats make recovering data from old disks a bit tricky. A problem the Archive Team has been dealing with as they endeavor to preserve roughly everything that has ever been stored. Ever.
.Dense disc
The MD-4 computer mini-disc unit from IMSAI (14860 Wicks Blvd., San Leandro, Calif. 94577) uses conventional Micropolis drives, but unconventional 1024-byte-per-sector recording format. Result: an 18-percent—780K bytes-increase in storage capability. It’s $1995 with MDOS and controller.
.Why the microfilmer is as important as the billing machine!
In thousands of retail and wholesale businesses today, you’ll find a Recordak microfilmer working side-by-side with billing machines— doing away with descriptions on bills… and reducing posting time by 85%!
The routine is this easy: billing clerks in retail stores, for example, post only the totals of sales checks, credits and returns on the bill.
.Costly Library Books Loaned to Readers in Film Rolls
CONTENTS of the original copies of valuable books are being filmed by many libraries throughout the country and the rolls loaned out instead of the books themselves. The reader may then study the material by reflecting it on a screen by a tiny projector that is loaned with the rolls. A roll is placed in a machine turned at the reader’s convenience by means of a tiny handle.
.Newspaper Pages Photographed to Save “Morgue” Space
INSTEAD of filing away a copy of the newspaper every day for future reference, morgue keepers can now merely make a photograph of the sheets of the paper and file the negative of the photo away in the morgue. This is achieved by means of an extremely sensitive camera recently invented which reproduces the entire sheet on a film the size of a postage stamp, solving storage problems.
.“My computer helped me write The Final Encyclopedia. I wouldn’t trust anything less than Scotch Brand Diskettes to make a long story short!”
Gordon R. Dickson,
Science Fiction Author, Minneapolis, MinnesotaGordon Dickson: a small businessman whose product is his own imagination. He’s written more than 40 novels and 150 short stories; his newest work is The Final Encyclopedia. He uses his personal computer and word processing software to maximize his production. All his words-his product-are stored on diskettes.
.Here’s a better, more practical way to reproduce engineering drawings
A UNITIZED MICROFILM SYSTEM…
1. saves time of engineers, file clerks, draftsmen
2. saves space—compact card files replace bulky drawing files
3. saves materials and mailing costs
Turn out high-quality prints on ordinary paper by xerography!
This is a pretty crazy way to store data.
.Camera Snaps Answers
To speed recording answers in computing machines, Kodak has made a new camera that snaps 1,000 12-digit numbers a second. The numbers are photographed from a cathode-ray tube as spots; retranslated into electrical impulses by photoelectric tubes as desired for feeding back into the computer. Mosaic above is film section enlarged 25 times. A 100-foot strip holds 3,000,000 digits.
