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...cope with the staggering information explosion in both business and government, a whole new electronic technology is fast developing that can store, catalogue and recall facts and figures in a pushbutton flash. Among the more sophisticated "information-retrieval" systems, Stromberg-Carlson has produced its 4020, Eastman Kodak its Recordak Miracode, RCA its 3488 and IBM its Walnut, which is used by the Central Intelligence Agency. Last week California's Ampex Corp. introduced the latest retrieval machine, a completely automated microfiling system that allows the searcher to edit his material as he selects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Figures in a Flash | 8/21/1964 | See Source »

Computer Translator. A machine that can take the figurings of a computer on magnetic tape, translate them into words, and print them on microfilm at the rate of two pages a second, faster than any competitor's model was announced by Eastman Kodak's Recordak Corp. subsidiary. It will, says the company, eliminate volumes of paper records and make computer findings instantly available. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Goods & Services: New Ideas | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

...century's grime and soot. Then he repainted the inside in fresh new colors: eggshell white, canary yellow, lime green. He had the heavy, forbidding front doors taken down, put in glass doors that opened by electric eye. In the main circulation room, he set up a Recordak machine to charge books in & out photographically in a fraction of the time it used to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Salesman in Atlanta | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

...thousand U. S. banks will be able to check up their depositors' withdrawals by photography before this year's end. Eastman Kodak Company's new Recordak apparatus (rental, $300 a year, capacity 16,000 checks per $5 in films) will provide conclusive proof that checks have really been paid. The Eastman Co. convinced itself of the usefulness and salability of the machine before it incorporated Recordak Corporation for $1,000,000 last fortnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Checked | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

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