Word: computerization
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Not every man wants or needs a computer by his bedside, but almost everyone will soon be getting new benefits from a versatile array of advanced computers-recently brought to market or ready to come off the drawing boards-that are designed to serve fields as varied as medicine, defense...
∙PLANE CONTROL. U.S. forces in Viet Nam will get Litton Industries' computers to direct combat missions. With the aid of radar and display screens, airborne computers will show pilots precisely where to go, signal corrections if they stray off course. A command control plane will carry a computer...
∙COMMUTER'S AID. Illinois Central Railroad is testing a Litton computer that handles commuter ticketing. After a clerk punches in the passenger's monthly schedule, the machine calculates the price and issues a magnetic card. On each trip, the commuter slips the card into a turnstile receiver...
...TALKING COMPUTER. Burroughs Corp. expects to market a computer next year that will read its answers aloud. Electric impulses will vibrate the membrane of a loudspeaker, forming words. One use: a bank customer can go to a drive-in window and deposit a check in the computerized system, which in one second or so will announce the amount of his balance...
∙LENSES. Improved optical glass and computer calculations have led to new lenses that were impossible to make before. Zeiss has an f0.70 lens, 100 times faster than the human eye in daylight, for general photography, and a 110° wide-angle lens free of distortions. Schneider has a movie...