[Year 12 IT Apps] Data retrieval technology - 1937 style

[ken price]

I'm intrigued as to how similar the moving chairs are to read-write heads
on hard disks.

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.

I wonder if they had head crashes in that system?

kp

On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Laurie Savage <08327998 at pvgc.vic.edu.au>
wrote:

> Databasement?
>
> LS
>
> Laurie Savage
>
> On 1 May 2015 at 13:44, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:
>
>> Data retrieval in Prague, 1937
>>
>> http://cdn.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/picture/2287100/84565802.jpg
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>> --
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