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Before long, Hood was promoted from messenger to mail sorter. Says Bob Evans. TIME'S mailroom supervisor: "It was soon obvious that Alex could outsort anybody in the place. Some 2,000 names have to be memorized for this job. I have never seen anybody who knew so many domestic and foreign names and addresses, or who was able to learn them so quickly...
Fruit-Meter. The University of California Engineering Department announced an electronic sorter which grades fruit according to ripeness by measuring the light reflections from the fruit. The sorter pops fruit into appropriate chutes for immediate sale or for ripening in storage. It can sort five lemons a second, does the work of four women...
...Sorter, which resembles a glorified cigarette dispenser, single-mindedly sorts all the cards into class lists, academic rankings, the number of bald veterans in Indic Philology or anything Registrar Kennedy wants. When February comes around, the Sorter arranges all the course cards in the proper order for exam schedules; from there these cards are shoved into another big box called the Collator which ferrets out all conflicts...
...there was no need for all this, because few people wanted information like grade sheets. But demands on the Registrar's office grew until they required a squad of typists and weeks of time. The first machines to appear in the University Hall basement were the Sorter, a Key Punch, and the Tabulator, the minimum necessary for any IBM system. The Collator, Reproducer, Interpreter, and another Key Punch were added later in the year...
...Sorter is easily upset by the weather. If the air is dry, operations may suddenly close down with a screech when a card jams; wet weather can produce the same noisy result. The others are better behaved. When something goes wrong with the Collator, it automatically stops and politely flashes little red lights...