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Academic libraries are laying plans to tie themselves together electronically so that each can benefit from the resources of the others. The medical libraries of Harvard, Yale and Columbia have been preparing punch cards for three years for such a network. Another system is Project Intercom, shared by a steadily growing number of colleges (now ten), which hope to unite their literature through computers, beginning with the medical and biological sciences. Eventually, says Intercom Executive Director Dr. James Miller of the University of Michigan, there will be a network of bookless libraries-study booths, electric typewriters and TV screens...
...cutting off for a 24-second interval between each picture. If so, the tape would have run through its two tracks twice as fast as it should have; it would have recorded only half of the 21 pictures. The confusion was compounded when a disembodied voice over the intercom announced: "All indications are that all was normal during the recording sequence...
...International). As gently as possible, he put the plane into a right turn and headed inland over Golden Gate Bridge. For the first time since takeoff ("I waited until I was fairly sure we could stay in the air"), Kimes spoke to his passengers over the plane's intercom system. Said he: "We have a minor problem, ladies and gentlemen. Well, maybe it's not so minor...
...cockpit, and the 80 passengers fastened their seat belts for the landing. The plane settled easily into the final approach and made a perfect touch down. But it was by no means a routine landing. As the plane taxied off the run way, Captain Poole got on the intercom to give his unsuspecting passengers a bit of a jolt: "Ladies and gentlemen," he said, "the approach to the runway and the touchdown have been made by automatic equipment on board." It was the first time that a jetliner with farepaying passengers aboard had landed by means of a computer...
...that passengers may loll comfortably in back while tooling along the highway (riding in a trailer is forbidden by many states as too dangerous). This is a boon for the driver too, since backseat drivers can only communicate with him by banging on the window or installing an intercom-though one manufacturer is considering making a truck with a roll-down back window that would allow passengers to crawl from living room to pilot's compartment...