Word: inputs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when the committee that studied the proposals reported back to the Department in October, it recommended a change that the tutors had not even mentioned: the installation of junior general examinations. The irrelevance of output to input gave the episode a slightly comic flavor, as though the reformers had slammed a door at one end of a room and a picture had fallen off the wall at the other...
...correct these problems, the Center has ordered an IBM 360/50. The computer, which will be linked to the accelerator through a cable, was chosen because it can handle input-output devices like magnetic tapes and punch cards while it is performing computations...
...Government takes a business census only once every five years; Congress keeps federal statisticians too starved for funds to make it more often. In a rapidly changing economy, five years is just too long for exact tracking. Important in the current revision are better statistics supplied by the new input-output study of what various industries sell to each other (TIME, Nov. 20) and fresh concepts of what should be included in the gross national product. The $1.2 billion a year paid in real estate commissions, for example, was reclassified from a current expense to a capital outlay, thus increasing...
...compelling fascination with the unhuman condition and his gift for rendering machines as covers. To complement his study of the care and feeding of a computer at work, the cover slash depicts a segment of five-channel, punched paper tape used to get man's message (known as "input" in the new vocabulary) into the machine. The story throws new light on how pervasive the computer is becoming in our society, but it also makes clear that it is a new breed of technician-human-who gives the machine its logic...
...computer receives its information, called input, from magnetic disks, magnetic tapes, punched cards or typewriter-like keyboards that feed the memory unit. Each fact is first translated into binary language, a system using two as a base instead of ten as in the decimal system, and then fed into the computer. Once it has received a given fact, the computer relays it to its memory unit via electronic impulses that "store" the numerically defined fact in several metal rings...