Word: sorters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Earlier this year, an automatic mail sorter went haywire in a large Midwestern city with the result that eastbound mail was sent west. Several hundred thousand pounds of mail were shipped before the error was discovered...
Shunted to the proper slot of a mechanical sorter, letters wind up in one of 279 bins representing major U.S. postal zones...
...equipment will make possible the maintenance of two files on checked out books, one for information, the other for handling returned books and sending over-due notices. The set will consist of a collator, a sorter, two key punches, a verifier, and a reproducing punch, all operated by two or three people...
...students when the Houses they have applied for have no more vacancies, and so forth. Given this information and a solution to the first problem, Oettinger calculates, the actual writing of a program for the University's 7090 computer, or setting up the plug-board for a mechanical card sorter, could be done "by anyone." (He considers the choice between the sorter and the 7090 computer, like that between cards or tape for recording information, a relatively unimportant technicality. "Machine operating time in either case would be only 15-20 minutes...
...British professional men (generally underpaid by U.S. standards), but is only about half what the specialists make. Worst of all, for general practitioners, is their feeling that they are being reduced to the status of medical clerks. Says a Yorkshireman: "The G.P.'s job is to be a sorter and referrer...