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Up to now, the boomlet has come chiefly from the five big U.S. cities that still have rapid rail transit: New York, Chicago, Boston, Cleveland and Philadelphia. But Atlanta and Washington, D.C., are planning new systems, Philadelphia is already engineering one, and even Los Angeles is toying with the idea...
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...
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'...
Not that there is anything to be scared of. Control Data's success is due to the shrewd marketing strategy and careful planning program worked out by the eleven Sperry Rand engineers-led by Norris-who founded the firm in 1957 after tiring of life in a big corporation...
More Plans than Money. Control Data's latest computer is its complicated 6600, which can execute 3,000,000 orders per second, is being installed in the AEC's Livermore, Calif., lab. Cost: $7,000,000. But the firm is gradually moving beyond purely scientific computers. Its most...