Volume 4 Number 3 May/June 1967 Information Display Journal of the Society for Information Display ! saa rraac!saa Imagine being able to display and er's memory or on magnetic tape, record alphanumeric output at 110,- the 280 produces valuable graphic GalitarDII lnstllntly! 000 characters per second ... 128- aids including highly technical character lines at 38,400 lines per graphs, charts, schematics, maps, with the minute •.. points and vectors at mathematical models and directory CONTROL DATA® up to 200,000 per second. This is listings. Meanwhile, its high-speed the kind of speed you can expect micro-camera instantly produces ,~ 280 Digital from the CONTROL DATA 280 Re­ film strips, slides, aperture ca rds or •• corder and Display - one of the paper copies from the CRT image Data Recorder few peripheral devices that can keep for study by individual scientists. f and Display pace with a computer's abi lity to The 280 Recorder and Display is ca lcu late at micro- and nanosecond available for use with both 3000 speeds. A valuable research tool, and 6000 Series Control Data com­ 8th the 280 converts computer data to puters. For full details, contact your film or paper output that is more Control Data sales office or write: easily understood by the user. It Rational provides scientists with a method for keeping up with an overwhelm­ ing vo lume of numbers and symbols CONTROL DATA IJmpasium in which they might otherwise be­ CORPORATION come lost. From data stored in the comput- 8100 34th AV E. 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