Electronics: April 1965

 

From: Chuck

Sept 18, 2024

A random book...

 

This novel selection:

Electronics Systems for Convenience, Safety, and Enjoyment (Sam's 1965)

 

had some interesting illustrations of 

Los Angeles Trade-Technical College...

 

At the time, there were 22,000 Business

Computers in America, The Martin Company had a Manpack mobile radio

with a 2 mile range, Copiers, Xerox Machines, a Pager, Electronic Pens for Football Games...

Data Phones connected Business Computers over phone lines,

ARPA connected The U.N. World Health Organization in Copenhagen with a Data

Library computer in Santa Monica,

 

IBM had just announced

the System 360, capable of performing

133,300 additions in one second..., with a storage capacity of 132,072 characters,

Magnetic Tape, and Punched Card reader.

 

Control Data Corporation had the 6600,

capable of 3 Million operations per second,

the fastest in the country.

 

There was a Medical Information Retrieval

System MEDLARS (Honeywell) which used

Magnetic Tape Storage to compile the

Index Medicus (a monthly 12,000 article

World Medicine Bibliography) - with an unusual optical printer called GRACE,

 

and an illustration from

the Journal Telephonographique, anticipating Television,

and Shopping by Phone back in 1885.

 

 

 

 

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