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...institutional loop" would benefit banks, libraries, and other non-residential users as well as universities, Alfred A. Pandiscio, associate director for video services at Harvard's Office for Information Technology, said yesterday...
...manufacturing, or "CAM" side of the CAD/CAM loop is only now beginning to take shape, but its potential applications are, if anything, even more mind stretching. Already factories are linking up their design and engineering computers to computer-controlled machine tools and robots on the shop floor, and with a push of the button rendering electronic designs into finished products. The ultimate vision is of a "factory of the future," in which everything from ordering parts to packing and shipping out the finished products runs with the smooth, silent pulse of electronic messages moving through computer circuits...
Despite its obvious possibilities, the CAD/CAM revolution still faces several obstacles. For one thing, the loop between design computers and thinking machines on the shop floor is still far from complete, except in the case of some fairly simple cutting and shaping operations. Comprehensive computerized manufacturing of complex industrial equipment is thus not likely to start becoming economically feasible until late in the decade. Moreover, CAD/CAM equipment itself can break down. After six months of intensive "debugging," International Harvester's clutch housing complex still has not operated without at least some periodic electrical or mechanical interruptions...
...August permanently scrapped plans for its big Bailly plant. The esti-'"mated cost of the facility had multiplied almost ten times, from $ 187 million when first proposed in 1970 to $1.8 billion, but the big objection was the site. The installation is 30 miles from Chicago's Loop and 6½ miles from Gary, Ind., closer to major population centers than anyone now thinks wise...
...hill, a turn, a rise, a dip, none of which looked terribly menacing. But as the line snaked its way around a plaster mountain placed there for atmospheric effect, "The Demon's" devilish aspects revealed themselves. I had seen the tame initial drop; I had not seen the loop that towered over the fake mountain. My first inclination was to leave the line, but embarrassment is a powerful force. I stayed put. A few minutes later I saw the next terror: another loop, this one even higher than the first; then there were two corkscrew loops and, as the finale...