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...only foreign country whose airline shows movies, but that is bound to change.) TWA spends up to $2,000,000 a year to lease its equipment and movies from Inflight Motion Pictures, which developed the idea. Installation of Continental's system, developed by California's Ampex Corp., will cost about $45,000 a plane. For its Astrovision, made by Sony of Japan, American Airlines pays $52,000 a plane; it puts out another $1,000,000 a year just to rent 52 movies. Pan American is studying an in-flight movie system that would cost about...
...store, catalogue and recall facts and figures in a pushbutton flash. Among the more sophisticated "information-retrieval" systems, Stromberg-Carlson has produced its 4020, Eastman Kodak its Recordak Miracode, RCA its 3488 and IBM its Walnut, which is used by the Central Intelligence Agency. Last week California's Ampex Corp. introduced the latest retrieval machine, a completely automated microfiling system that allows the searcher to edit his material as he selects...
...Ampex's Videofile system condenses bulky file folders to tiny reels of television magnetic tape, enabling 250,000 document pages to be stored on a 14-in. reel. At the push of a button, from any number of locations and at great distances, Videofile's computer automatically locates the individual file-on-film, then reproduces it as pictures on a TV screen or as printed copies-all in less than a minute. The operator can scan the TV screening of the file, get printed copies of only what portions he needs. More important, says Ampex, individual file entries...
Videofile will be the component for other systems that Ampex intends to design specifically for banks, hospitals, insurance firms and other industries. The market for such retrieval systems is $23 million this year, but Ampex expects it to grow to $1.5 billion within the next decade. As the nation's paper work piles up, the machines are bound to become even more sophisticated. IBM's 7770 system not only taps millions of business facts stored in a computer but talks back to the information seeker with a 126-word vocabulary. Its recorded voice is sometimes that...
California's Ampex Corp. has developed a similar system, called "Travelvision" for showing movies and television on planes, ships, buses and trains, and within two months will install the first system in a U.S. airline. Flexer's Inflight has 35 systems working aloft for TWA, another four for Pakistan International Airlines; it has also obtained a waiver of its exclusive TWA contract so that it can service noncompeting routes, is presently negotiating with one international and four domestic lines...