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Of?!l 1 3 r mental Instruction System How to put your finger on one item out of 36,000 A division of H. K. Porter recorded on magnetic tape and and safety stocks. Company, Inc., does it fed into the computer. Replenishment orders are auto by dialing a computer center. I n a matter of milliseconds, matically produced when needed. Anyone of 36,000 items could be the computer tells the production The result has been a cut in at any of seven warehouses and status or inventory location inventories. And customer eight plants across the nation. of the product. And the entire service is at its best. When a product is sold, the order is processed for shipment We can help you put your finger information on punched cards in one working day. (It formerly on the way to move information is sent via Bell System took up to fourteen days.) quickly and efficiently. Data-Phone* service over regular As ordering information flows in, Just call your Bell Telephone telephone lines to the Porter the computer updates the Business Office. Ask to computer center in Pittsburgh. average monthly demand, have our Communications The information is instantly economical production quantities, Consultant contact you. T. T® Bell System I. & a American Telephone & Telegraph *Service mark of the Bell System A • and Associated Companies These 9ifts girst For those dreaming of computers for Christmas, or instru friendly, approachable, creatively adaptable ... Prices begin mentation using digital techniques, we have two free gifts at $10,000 for a complete computer. for you - that really should be opened first. The 330-page Digital Logic Handbook describes four series Just published is a 540-page Handbook of Small Computers, of Flip ChipT .. modules, which are not only ideal for interfacing which begins with a primer (or, what everyone should know with the computers, but from which most digital instrumen about small computers), and goes on to describe, in detail, tation can be made. The handbook describes the logic in three of the most exciting small computers in the industry. detail, as well as applications. The PDP-SIS, the PDP-S, and the L1NC-S are general pur pose, on-line, real time, Fortran-speaking machines that are Write for you r presents. COMPUTERS' MODULES DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION, Maynard, Massachusetts 01754. Telephone: (617) 897-8821 • Cambridge, Mass. • New Haven. Washington, D. C.• Parsippany, N. J .• Rochester, N. Y.• Philadelphia. Huntsville. Pittsburgh. Chicago. Denver. Ann Arbor. Houston. Los Angeles. Palo Alto· Seattle. Carleton Place and Toronto, Ont. • Reading, England • Paris, France • Munich and Cologne, Germany • Sydney and West Perth, Australia • Modules distributed also thraun11 Allied Radio Designate No. 4 on Readers Service Card When it comes to wrapping a everyone uses Computape either. of course, are familiar, not only package or patching a cut or re There are still tape users who with the quick delivery, the fine cording a symphony there is usu have not discovered {hat, if they performance, and the convenience ally one brand of tape that does buy Computape, they get far more features, but also with extras such the job a little better than anything than a certified reel of reliable, as Computron's unique applica else ... but people being what they quality recording tape. They still tions engineering service - avail are, not everyone uses it. haven't found that the tape itself is able without charge, on short no Likewise, in critical data pro only half the story ... that unlike tice, in all parts of the country. cessing applications, there is one many other tape manufacturers, Perhaps you should be using precision tape that stands above the Computron follows through. Computape. Find out. Write today rest in terms of value ... but not Those who do use Computape, for the complete story. aLEBJ CCMPUTRCN. INC Designate No. 3 on Readers Service Card 122 CALVARY STREET. WALTHAM, MASSACHUSETTS 02154 The front cover shows an experimental instruction system designed for an educational research classroom in Stanford University, Calif. For more information, see page 42. ©CQ)[flFQCQ)LSof0~~@ (EJ o=u cQ] CEJ~~'G;@OlfU<EJ'lt a(Q) [(U DECEMBER, 1966 Vol. 15, No. 12 Special Featttre: editor and publisher 1966 Pictorial Report on the C01npttter Field EDMUND C. BERKELEY 22 Digital Computers 28 Analog Computers associate publisher 30 Data Transmitters and Converters PATRICK J. MCGOVERN 32 Memories 40 Input-Output Equipment assistant editors 48 Components MOSES M. BERLIN 52 Miscellany LINDA LADD LOVETT NEIL D. MACDONALD In This Issue 14 THE COMPUTER'S ROLE IN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY contributing editors by Booz, Allen, and Hamilton, Inc. JOHN BENNETT What the well-known management consulting firm itself said about the results of 189 interviews in 33 companies in regard to the use of compu ANDREW D. BOOTH ters in manufacturing industry. DICK H. BRANDON JOHN W. CARR, III In Every Issue NED CHAPIN IMPORTA:'-JT l'\OTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS IN ALSTON S. HOUSEHOLDER THE U:'-JITED STATES: Please look at your across the editor's desk address label on this copy. IF YOUR PETER KUGEL 55 COMPUTING AND DATA PROCESSING NEWSLETTER ZIP CODE IS MISSII\G OR IS INCORRECT, please Cl) attach your label to a reply ROD E. 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