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...hulled Eagle, built in 1936, vibrates with the hum of her 728-h.p. diesel engine. Power winches, not able-bodied seamen, crank the windlass to hoist anchor. In the communications shack, the latest electronic gear helps plot the ship's position. On the foremast, a slowly rotating radar scanner keeps an electronic...
That's Charles U. Daly, vice president for government and community affairs, talking about one of Hall's cost accounting devices--a palm-print scanner to crack down on dining hall freeloaders...
...paying persons eating in Harvard dining halls. The machine was relatively simple. The finger length, curvature and skin translucency of each student would be recorded on the magnetic strip on the back of his or her bursar's card. Then each dining hall would be equipped with a slotted scanner that would read the magnetic strip when the card was inserted and indicate whether the palm matched the card. Hall and Frank J. Weissbecker, director of food services, had planned to try out the palm scanners on Summer School students, but abruptly aborted the experiment after a call from Hale...
...earlier summer action Hall announced the suspension of plans to use a controversial hand-scanner to check student identifications in the dining hall food lines...
...digit number-33900-10020 for an 8-oz. package of Jones hickory-smoked bacon, for example. Postage-stamp-sized rectangles printed on boxes or labels by the packager carry both the product's code number and a set of light and heavy lines that allow an optical scanner set in the newfangled check-out counters to identify each item. The scanner feeds the data to a computer programmed with the store's current prices as well as other information, and the machine does the rest...