Word: linasecs
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...such systems using full-fledged computers are expensive. The RCA 301, with associated equipment, costs the Los Angeles Times a monthly rent of $5.170. but when it is not busy at its primary job, it does extra duty making out the payroll and billing advertisers. Much simpler is the Linasec machine made by Compugraphic Corp. of Brookline. Mass., which is not too proud to ask help from that cheap, old-fashioned computer, the human brain...
...Linasec works on unjustified tape made by a typist from the reporters' edited copy, and it justifies lines quickly until it comes to a word that must be hyphenated. Having no memory or logical rules to solve this problem, it stops and calls for help by flashing a light. A human operator comes to its rescue, takes a look at the word and presses a key that hyphenates it properly. Then Linasec races ahead until it meets another problem beyond the capacity of its simple brain. A single human operator can take care of several Linasecs, each of which...