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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...in print shops and in the current digital eBook era.. My degree in human-computer interfaces in 1973 led to my appointment as adjunct professor at ... .... You could walk into that library, and the first thing you‘d see was the computer asking if there were any books you wanted. You selected books fro... ... lost books. You could search books using the SEARCH function on your own computer, import quotations into paper e-mails, etc., and copy the book. ... ...e toward the top of the machine until each matrix dropped into its proper storage tube within the Linotype‘s magazine. Notches on the sides of m... ... key—were coded differently for each character to direct it to its proper storage place in a vertical tube at the top of the machine. Lower costs... ...d lower cases, where they could immediately be used again. Long aisles of storage cases that had been filled with foundry-produced type became obsol... ...and quit his Amherst library job to produce and market metric and library devices. Named chief librarian later at Columbia College, New York, he se... ...neteenth century did a host of inventors set in motion the development of devices using electrical power that belong in any listing of Information T...

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