<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Took a bit of digging but I found a source and back story for this photograph if anybody wants to use it. </div><div class=""><span class="selectable"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span id="js-reference-string-0" class="selectable"><a href="http://Bciusa.com" class="">Bciusa.com</a>,. 'Photoshot > Image View'. N.p., 2015. Web. 17 May 2015. </span><a href="http://www.bciusa.com/view_image.jsp?img_id=101869" class="">http://www.bciusa.com/view_image.jsp?img_id=101869</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>"The offices of the Central Social Institution of Prague, Czechoslovakia with the largest vertical letter file in the world. Consisting of cabinets arranged from floor to ceiling tiers covering over 4000 square feet containing over 3000 drawers 10 feet long. It has electric operated elevator desks which rise, fall and move left or right at the push of a button. to stop just before drawer desired. The drawers also open and close electronically. Thus work which formerly taxed 400 workers is now done by 20 with a minimum of effort. 26th April 1937 “<br class=""><br class="">I would agree with Mark that it does look rather like a hard disk drive. Just trying to think how they could configure it as a raid array … hhmmm<br class=""><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 4 May 2015, at 10:19 am, ken price <<a href="mailto:kenjprice@gmail.com" class="">kenjprice@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">I'm intrigued as to how similar the moving chairs are to read-write heads on hard disks.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It's almost as if hard drive technology miniaturised the whole system of " data read/write people in chairs with x/y axis movement". The access times would be subject to the mechanical limitations of moving those Czech guys around the shelving.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I wonder if they had head crashes in that system? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">kp</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Laurie Savage <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:08327998@pvgc.vic.edu.au" target="_blank" class="">08327998@pvgc.vic.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="">Databasement?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">LS</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Laurie Savage</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div class=""><div class="h5">On 1 May 2015 at 13:44, Mark <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" target="_blank" class="">mark@vceit.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class=""><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr" class="">Data retrieval in Prague, 1937<br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://cdn.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/picture/2287100/84565802.jpg" target="_blank" class="">http://cdn.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/picture/2287100/84565802.jpg</a><span class=""><font color="#888888" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><span class=""><font color="#888888" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:12.6666669845581px" class="">>> Witty sig goes HERE <<</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Mark Kelly</div><div class="">mark AT vceit DOT com</div><div class=""><a href="http://vceit.com/" target="_blank" class="">http://vceit.com</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Gainfully Unemployed</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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