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listed below, for your convenience in. obtaining additional infonnation, are the full names, addresses, and telephone number of 46 manufacturers whose products are summarized in the comparison charts.

Acme Visible Records, Inc., Crozet, Virginia 22932. Tele-phone (804) 823-4351.

Addressograph Multigraph Company, Data Systems Division, 29100 Aurora Road, Solon, Ohio 44139. Tele-phone (216) 248-7830.

Bell and Howell Company, Business Equipment Group, 6800 McConnick Road, Chicago, nlinois 60045. Tele-phone (213) 724-5778.

Bourns Management Systems, a division of Bourns, Incorporated, 6600 Jurupa Avenue, Riverside, California 92504. Telephone (714) 687-7220.

Bridge Data Products, Incorporated, 738 South 42nd Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104. Telephone (215) 382-8700.

Bu"oughs Corporation, Business Machines Group, Bur-roughs Place, Detroit, Michigan 48232. Telephone (313) 972-7000.

Chatsworth Data Corporation, 9732 Cozycroft Avenue, Chatsworth, California 91311. Telephone (213)

341-9200. _ .

Qncinnati Time Recorder Company, 1733 Central.

Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45214. Telephone (513) 241-5500.

Cognitronics Corporation, 41 East 28th Street, New York, New York 10016. Telephone (212) 889-3650.

CompuScan, Incorporated, 900 Huyler Street, Teterboro, New Jersey 07608. Telephone (201) 288-6000.

Computer Entry Systems Corporation, 2141 Industrial Parkway, Silver Spring, Maryland 20904. Telephone (301) 622-3500.

Computer Identics Corporation, 31 Dartmouth Street, Westwood, Massachusetts 02090. Telephone (617) 326-8960.

Control Data Corporation, 8100 34th Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55420. Telephone (612) 853-8100.

Cummins Allison Corporation, 800 Waukegan Road, Glen-view, Illinois 60025. Telephone (312) 724-8000.

Data Recognition Corporation, 908 Industrial Avenue, Palo Alto, California 94303. Telephone (415) 3264810.

Datatype Corporation, 1050 N.W. 163rd Drive, Miami, Florida 33169. Telephone (305) 625-8451.

Datum, Incorporated, 170 E. Liberty Street, Anaheim, California 92801. Telephone (714) 879-3070.

Decicom Systems Incorporated, 857 Essex Street, Brook-lyn, New York 11208. Telephone (212) 649-8110.

Decision, Incorporated, 5601 College Avenue, Oakland, California 94618. Telephone (415) 654-8626.

Dest Data Corporation, 1285 Forgewood Avenue, Sunny-vale, California 94086. Telephone (408) 734-1234.

/Jocumation, Incorporated, P.O. Box 1240, Melbourne, Florida 32901. Telephone (305) 724-1111.

Electronic Associates Incorporated (EAI), -185 Monmouth Park Highway West, Long Branch, New Jersey 07764.

Telephone (201) 229-1100.

ECRM, Incorporated, 17 Tudor Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139. Telephone (617) 661-8600.

Hewlett-Packard Company, 640 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, California 94304. Telephone (415) 493-1501.

Honeywell Information Systems, Inc., 60 Walnut Street, Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts 02181. Telephone (617) 2374100.

IBly! Corporation, Data Processing Division, i i33 West-chester Avenue, White Plains, New York 10604. Tele-phone (914) 696-1900.

Indenticon Corporation, 300 Second Avenue, Waltham, Massachusetts 02154. Telephone (617) 890-6600.

Information International, Incorporated, 12435 West Olympic Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90064. Tele-phone (213) 478-2571.

Input Business Machines, Incorporated, 11900 Parklawn Drive, Rockville, Maryland 20852. Telephone (301) 881-0661.

Laser Computer Corporation,218 West Ball Road Anaheim, California 92805. Telephone (714)

778-5890~

Lundy Electronics & Systems, Incorporated, Computer Peripheral Division, 5535 Wilkinson Boulevard, Charlotte, North Carolina 28208. Telephone (704) 394-1161.

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!> National Computer Systems, Incorporated, 4401 West 76th Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55435. Telephone (612) 920-3670.

National Cash Register Company, EDP Products, Main and K Streets, Dayton, Ohio 45409. Telephone (513) 449-2000.

OCR Systems, Inc., 2745 Philmont Avenue, Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania 19006. Telephone (215) 947-5700.

Optical Business Machines, Incorporated, 900 East New Haven Avenue, Melbourne, Florida 32901. Telephone (305) 727-1774.

Optical Recognition Systems, Incorporated, 1928 Isaac Newtown Square West, Reston, Virginia 22070. Tele-phone (703) 471-5060.

Optical Scanning Corporation, P.O. Box 40, Route 332 East, Newtown, Pennsylvania 18940. Telephone (215) 9684611.

Peripheral Dynamics, Incorporated, 1030 West German-town Pike, NorrisGerman-town, Pennsylvania 19401. Telephone (215) 539-5500.

The Decision, Inc. OCR 7600 costs about $45,000 OEM For this price, a prospective end-user marketing organiza-tion gets a minicomputer-based, OCR A/handprint sys-tem that can scan 8 fully typed pages per minute for a throughput of about 300 characters per second, with a hardware-augmented software recognition system End-user prices would be about twice the OEM price. Cummins-Allison has picked this unit for its KeyScan mixed-media sys-tems.

Recognition Equipment, Incorporated, Post Office Box 22307, Dallas, Texas 75222. Telephone (214) 259-8611.

Scan-Data Corporation, 800 East Main Street, Norristown, Pennsylvania 19401. Telephone (215) 277-0500.

Scan-Optics, Incorporated, 22 Prestige Park Road, East Hartford, Connecticut 06108. Telephone (203) 289-6001.

Terminal Communications, Incorporated, Box 27228, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611. Telephone (919) 834-5251.

True Data Corporation, 17905 Skypark Boulevard, Suite G, Irvine, California 92707. Telephone (714) 9794842.

UNIVAC Division, Sperry Rand Corporation, Peripheral Sub-Systems, P.O. Box 500, Blue Bell, Pennsylvania 19422. Telephone (215) 646-9000.

Westinghouse Learning Corporation, Data Processing Systems, P.O. Box 30, Iowa City, Iowa 52240. Telephone (319) 356-3011.

UYle Computer Products, Incorporated, 128 Maryland 3treet, El Segundo, California 90245. Teiephone (213) 322-1763.0

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APPLICATION Media Data form

Use

DOCUMENT HANDLING Minimum size, inches Maximum size, inches Weight Editing and formatting

RECOGNITION Font or code styles read

Character set

Scanning technique

Character recognition technique

OUTPUT

On-line manual correction TYPICAL PURCHASE PRICE, $ TYPICAL MONTHL Y RENTAL, $ FIRST DELIVERY

NUMBER INSTALLED TO DATE COMMENTS

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ACME Visible ACME Visible Addressograph- Addressograph-Records Records Multigraph Corp. Multigraph Corp.

711 711/ES 9630/31 9633

SO-column cards SO-column cards SO-column cards SO-column cards Marks/holes Marks/holes Bar code, marks aar code, marks On- or off-line, On- or off-line, Off-line Off-line terminal terminal

3.25 x 4.S75 3.25 x 4.S75 3.25 x 7.375 3.25 x 7.375 3.25 x 11 3.25 x 11 3.25 x 7.375 3.25 x 7.375 Card stock Card stock Card stock Card stock Friction Friction Drive rollers Drive rollers Drive rollers Drive rollers Drive rollers Drive rollerS

Up to 132 Up to 132 60 bar codes and 60 bar codes and 40 marks 40 marks

- - -

-- - 1 2

Timing marks Internal program External External

None Internal program None Internal

Marks, holes; Marks, holes; AM Bar Code; AM Bar Code;

Hollerith or Hollerith or hand-made marks hand-made marks

binary binary

Full ASCII, Full ASCII, 0-9 0-9

EBCDIC, BCD, EBCDIC, BCD, binary image binary image

Phototransistors Phototransistors Photocells Photocells

None None None None

7- and 9-track; 7- and 9-track; -

-200-1600 bpi 200-1600 bpi

SO- or 96-column SO- or 96-column - 96-column

Interfaces Tele- Interfaces Tele- Interfaces Tele- Interfaces IBM type 33 & 35 or type 33 & 35 or type Model 33 5496 Card keypunch; reads keypunch; reads ASR Punch both sides; both sides;

sorts to up to sorts to up to 7 pockets 7 pockets

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Addressograph-Bell and HOINe" Bourns Manage- Bourns

Manage-MANUFACTURER & MODEL Multigraph Corp. ment Systems mentSysterns

9639 ^MDR Standard Reader Reader/Sorter

APPLICATION

Media 80-column cards Documents, cards Cards Cards

Data form Bar code, marks Marks, punches Marks, punches Marks, punches

Use Off-line On-or off-line, On- or off-line On- or off-line

DOCUMENT HANDLING

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Minimum size, inches 3.25 x 7.375 3.25 x 4.852 3.25 x 4.625 3.25 x 7.375 Maximum size, inches 3.25 x 7.375 3.25 x unlimited 3.25 x 14.0 3.25 x 7.375

Weight Card stock Card stock Card stock Card stock

Feed technique Drive rollers Friction Friction Friction

Transport method Drive rollers Drive rollers Drive rollers Drive rollers

INPUT

Characters per line 60 bar codes and 60 marks or Up to 160 marks Up to 160 marks 40 marks 80 punches or 80 punches or 80 punches

Lines per inch - - ^-

-Lines per pass 2 1 -

-Field selection External None - I nternal program

Editing and formatting Internal None None I nternal program

RECOGNITION

Font or code styles read AM Bar Code; Hollerith or Marks, punches, Marks, punches, hand-made marks binary line printer marks; line printer marks;

Hollerith or Hollerith or

binary binary

Character set 0-9 Alphanumeric Alphanumeric Alphanumeric

& special char. & special char.

Scanning technique Photocells Photodiodes Photo array Photo array

Character recognition technique None None None None

OUTPUT

Magnetic tape - 7 - or 9-track; 200, 7- or 9-track; 200, 7 - or 9-track; 200, 556, or 800 bpi 556,800,or 556,800, or

1600 bpi 1600 bpi

Punched cards 80-column 80-column 80-column 80-column

Punched tape - ^8-level 5- to 8-level 5- to 8-level

Communication lines - 110 to 1 200 bps 110 to 2400 bps 110 to 2400 bps

Computer - - Custom-synch Custom-synch

or bisynch or bisynch

PERFORMANCE

Documents per minute 100 8 to 200 Up to 300 Up to 300

Lines per minute - - Up to 300 Up to 300

Characters per second - 10 to 180 Up to 240 Up to 240

ERROR CONTROL

Automatic rescan No No Yes Yes

Reject pocket Yes No No Yes

On-line manual correction Yes No Yes Yes

TYPICAL PURCHASE PRICE, $ 19,600 4,000 to 5,700 From 2,000 From 7,000

TYPICAL MONTHLY RENTAL, $ 621 136 to 194 From 70 From 250

FIRST DELIVERY Jan. 1971 1967 Jan. 1972 March 1973

NUMBER INSTALLED TO DATE 68 NA 170 50

COMMENTS I nterfaces IBM Many models; Double-side Same features

29 Card Punch see Report read error as Standard 700-092-01 for detection; Reader; unit is details switch-selectable programmable;

transmission software is rates; optional tailored to output language. user's

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Bridge Data 8022

Cards Marks, holes On- or off-line

7.375 x 3.25 7.375 x 3.25 Card stock Friction Drive rollers

Up to 80 4 12

Timing marks

-Marks, holes

Alphanumeric

Photocells None

-2400 bps

-200

-Up to 575

No No No 3,500

-Sept. 1973 NA Reads both marks and holes in a single pass;

standard interface is RS-232D

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APPLICATION Media Data form Use

DOCUMENT HANDLING Minimum size, inches Maximum size, inches Weight

Font or code styles read

Character set

On-line manual correction TYPICAL PURCHASE PRICE, $ TYPICAL MONTHLY RENTAL, $ FIRST DELIVERY

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Bridge Data Bridge Data Bridge Data Bridge Data

8025 8035 8045 8065

Cards CardS Cards Cards

Marks, holes Marks, holes Marks, holes Marks, holes On- or off-line On- or off-line On- or off-line On- or off-line

7.375 x 3.25 2.125 x 3.25 2.125 x 3.25 2.125 x 3.25 7.375 x 3.25 7.375 x 3.25 7.375 x 3.25 7.375 x 3.25 Card stock Card stock Card stock Card stock

Friction Friction Friction Friction

Drive rollers Drive rollers Drive rollers Drive rollers

Up to 80 Up to 80 Up to 80 Up to 80

4 4 4 4

12 12 12 12

Timing marks Timing marks Timing marks Timing marks

- - -

-Marks, holes Marks, holes Marks, holes Marks, holes

Alphanumeric Alphanumeric Alphanumeric Alphanumeric

Photo cells Photo cells Photo cells Photo cells

None None None None

- ^~ -

-- - -

-- 4800 bps 7200 bps 9600 bps

Parallel output Parallel output Parallel output Parallel output

200 Up to 300 Up to 450 Up to 600 single pass rates are stated

for demand opera-tion; continuous operation results in higher card rates

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Chatsworth Chatsworth Cincinnati

Cognitronics Time Recorder

MANUFACTURER & MODEL Data Corp. Data Corp.

90 Series Corp.

1500 3000 Series

TaDa Scanner System170 APPLICATION

Media Cards Documents Paper tape Documents, pages,

journal tape

Data form Marks Marks, punches Bar code Characters

Use On·line On-line terminal Off-line Off·line

DOCUMENT HANDLING

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Minimum size, inches 7.375 x 3.25 3.25 x 7.375 1" paper tape 4 x 3.25

Maximum size, Inches 7.375 x 3.25 3.25 x 14.75 - 8.5 to unlimited

Weight Card stock Card stock - 20# to card stock

Feed technique Friction Friction Friction Friction

Transport method Drive rollers Drive rollers Drive rollers Drive rollers

INPUT

Characters per line 8O-column 1

-

Up to 38 (hand

print) or 76

Lines per inch - 12 - 6 max.

Lines per pass - 80 to 160 - ^Unlimited

Field selection Internal None - I nternal program

Editing and formatting Internal None External program I nternal program

RECOGNiTION

Font or code styles read Marks Marks Bar code OCR A & B,

Courier 12, 1403, 142S,7B,12F, handprint

Character set Reads binary Alphanumeric 0-9 plus EOM Alphanumeric

mark upper and lower

case (OCR A & B and Courier 12);

numeric and special symbols Scanning technique Ph ototransistors Phototransistors Photocell Laser

Character recognition technique None None Decoding matrix Topological and matrix matching OUTPUT

Magnetic tape - 7- or 9-track; 7- or 9-track, 7- or 9-track;

200 to 1600 bpi SOO bpi 556, 800, or 1600 bpi

Punched cards SO-column SO-column SO- & 96-column

-Punched tape - 5- to S-Ievel No 5-level

Communications lines - Up to 1200 bps No Dial network

Computer IBM 360,370, Custom No

-Honeywell 2000

PERFORMANCE

Documents per minute 1500 Up to 600 - Up to 100

Lines per minute - - - Up to 300

Characters per second - - 10-30 125 max.

hand-print; 250 max.

OCR A ERROR CONTROL

Automatic reSCan No No No Yes

Reject pocket Yes Optional No No

On-line manual correction No No Yes Yes

TYPICAL PURCHASE PRICE, $ 75,000 745 to 5,SOO 4,000 to 5,000 33,600 to 55,000

TYPICAL MONTHLY RENTAL, $ 2,500 100 to 300 - 1,270to 1,975

FIRST DELIVERY 1965 1967 Jan. 1972 Aug. 1970

NUMBER INSTALLED TO DATE 20 Over 500 S NA

COMMENTS Reads 30-row Models include Parity and length ROCR service

cards on both OEM, manual of message checks available using sides; formerly feed, and auto- are standard same equipment;

produced by matic feed ver- transmission

be-Datatrend Corp. slons; formerly tween two

produced by Svstem/70's Is

Automata Corp. pOSSible

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CompuScan Inc.

Model 170

Documents Characters, marks On- or off-line

5x7 11 x 14 20 # to card stock Vacuum

o rive rollers

o to 100 1,2,2.5,3,4,5,6 All

I nternal program Internal program_

OCR A, OCR B, Printing and Publishing # 199 (Perry), IBM Courier 12 Upper and lower case alpha-numeric and symbols

Phototranslstors Matrix matching

7- or 9-track

SO-column 5- to 8-level Optional Optional

-60 120

Yes Yes Yes 62,200

-1971 220 Designed for text processing

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APPLICATION Media Data form Use

DOCUMENT HANDLING Minimum size, inches Maximum size, inches Weight

Font or code styles read

Character set TYPICAL PURCHASE PRICE, $ TYPICAL MONTHL Y RENTAL, $ FIRST DELIVERY

NUMBER INSTALLED TO DATE COMMENTS

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Computer Entry Computer ldentia ComPuter Identics Compu$can Inc. Systems Corp. Corp. Corp.

ALPHA 7100 IDENTIC Scanner IDENTIC Lightpen

Docu ments, pages Documents Goods In process Goods in process Characters, marks Characters Barcode Bar code On- or off-line Off-line On-line On- or off-line

3x5 3x2 Preprinted labels Labels/tickets

14 x 50 9x6 on packages on goods

20_ to card stock 20# to 36# -

-Vacuum - -

-Drive rollers Drive rollers -

-o to 120 1 to 85 4 digits/inch 8 digits/inch

publishing 199, 2-or-5 bar codes

IBM Courier 12

Upper-& lower- 0-9, 6 letters 0-9 0-9 case alpha- plus 4 special

numerics & symbols specials

Photocells - Fiving spot Photodiodes

Matrix matching Matrix Scan comparison None

& matching

7- or 9-track Reader only Thru interface

-BO-column

-

Thru Interface Thru interface

S-to 8-level - Thru interface Thru interface

Optional - Thru interface Thru interface

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^- ParaUe! or serie! Pere!!e! or ser!a!

to any computer to any computer

Up to 100 Hand-30; Conveyor line 60-70 labels processing OEM product; data collection identification

• manual switching device In real- codes on labels between 2 fonts time systems or tickets attached

to goods in process or shelves

OCR A, hand

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Cummins-Allison Cummins-Allison

MANUFACTURER & MODEL Corp. Corp.

Scanak 216 Scanak 229

921 955

APPLICATION

Media Documents Documents, pages Documents Documents

Journal tape

Data form Characters, Characters Bar code, marks Marks,

perfora-marks perforations tions

Use Off-line Off-line Off-line Off-line

DOCUMENT HANDLING

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Minimum size, inches 2.6 x 4.5 3.25 x 4.75 2.8 x 1.3 1.45 x 1.33

Maximum size, inches 4.5 x 8.5 11x12.5 8.75 x 4.0 3.22 x 1.33

Weight 204lt to 3841t 18# to 38# 20# to card stock Card stock

Feed technique Vacuum Vacuum Friction Sprocket

Transport method Vacuum drum Conveyor belt Drive rollers Conveyor

INPUT

Characters per line 80 max. 100 max. 1 to 81 1 to 28

Lines per inch - 6 -

-Lines per pass 1 60 max. 1 1

Field selection Internal program Internal program Plugboard Rotary switches Editing and formatting I nternal program I nternal program None None

RECOGNITION

Font or code styles read OCR A, OCR C, OCR A, OCR C, AM Bar Code; Dennison perfora-ISO B, 7B, 12F, 1428,1403,7B, perforated num- tions; special E-13B,407-1, 12 F, E-13B, bers; special "1's" code 1428 ISO B, hand "1's" code;

printing Hollerith

Character set Alphanumeric Alphanumeric; Alphanumeric Numeric

lower case OCR A (Hollerith); nu-OPtional meric (all others)

Scanning technique Laserlmlrror Photocells Photocells Photocells

Character recognition technique Matrix matching Matrix matching None None

OUTPUT

Magnetic tape 7- or 9-track; 7- or 9-track; 7- or 9-track; 7- or 9-track;

200,556 or 200, 556,or800 200 or 800 bpi 200 or 800 bpi

800 bpi bpi

Punched cards - ^Optional ^Optional ^80-column

Punched tape - ^Optional ^Optional

-Communications lines - - ^Optional ^Optional

Computer CDC 8092 CDC SC17001 -

-1700

PERFORMANCE

Documents per minute 1200 15 (8.5 x 11) 550 max. 100 to 500

to 300

Lines per minute -

-

-Characters per second 1547 or 2210 750 -

-ERROR CONTROL

Automatic rasean Yes Yes No No

Reject pocket Yes Yes Yes Yes

On-line manual correction No OPtional Yes Yes

TYPICAL PURCHASE PRICE, $ 28,500 115,350 40,000 to 20,750 to

65,000 45,500

TYPICAL MONTHL Y RENTAL, $ 920 2,510 1,200 to 2,000 300 to 1,100

FIRST DELIVERY 1971 1970 1967 1962

NUMBER INSTALLED TO DATE 40 40 130 75

COMMENTS Optional line "1 's" code is

marker and effectively a bar serial numbering code adapted for device printing by

com-puter printer;

many models have various combinations of features

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Cummins-Allison 4400 Key Scan

Documents Chars, marks, bars, perforations Off-line

2.8 x 1.3 8.75 x 4.25 204lt to card stock Friction

Drive rollers

1 to 81 -1

I nternal program I nternal program

OCR A, 1403, 7B, E13B, AM Bar Code, Hollerith, per-forated code Alphanumeric (Hollerith); 0-9 plus 5 special chars. (all others) Self-scanning array

Matrix matching

7-track, 200,556, 800 bpi; 9-track, 800, 1600 bpi RPQ RPQ

Up to 9600 bps

-585

-No Yes Yes 85,000 to 185,000 2,000 to 4,500

Jan. 1973 NA

System includes CRT key entry stations for Independent manual data entry

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MANUFACTURER & MODEL APPLICATION

Media Data form Use

DOCUMENT HANDLING Minimum size, inches Maximum size, inches Weight

Feed technique Transport method

INPUT

Characters per line Lines per inch Lines per pass Field selection Editing and formatting

RECOGNITION Font or code styles read

Character set

Scanning technique

Character recognition technique

OUTPUT Magnetic tape Punched cards Punched tape Communications lines Computer

PERFORMANCE Documents per minute Lines per minute Characters per second ERROR CONTROL

Automatic rescan Reject pocket

On-line manual correction TVPICAL PURCHASE PRICE, $

TVPICAL MONTHL V RENTAL, $ FIRST DELIVERV

NUMBER INSTALLED TO DATE COMMENTS

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Data Recognition Data Recognition Datatype Corp. Datatype Corp. Oatatype Corp.

ADES-1 Model 700 DF12-300 Entry 1,2 SETYPE II

Documents Documents Pages Pages Pages

OCR Characters Binary bar code Binary bar code Binary bar code Off-line Off-line On-or off-line On- or off-line On- or off-line

terminal

4.75 x 2.75 3 x 4.5 8.5 x 11 8.5 x 11 8.5 x 11

8.75 x 4.25 3.67 x 8.5 8.5 x 11 8.5 x 11 8.5 x 11 20 • to 120. 24# to 100# Special forms Special forms Special forms

Friction Vacuum Friction Friction Friction

Belt and rollers Drive belt Drive rollers Drive rollers o rive rollers

1 to 82 Up to 43 o to 70 o to 70 o to 70

3 - Upt06 Up to 6 Up to 6

6 2 All All All

Minicomputer Prewired None Internal program None

program

Minicomputer Internal External program I nternal program Internal program program

7B, OCR A, 7B, 1428B Font consists of binary bar code under each character;

1428A, OCR A/ tYped with DF-3 OCR Selectric tYping element 1428A, 1403,

E-13B (opti-calor magnetic)

Varies with font 0-9 Alphanumeric, upper and lower c ....

Self-scanning Solid state Phototransistors Phototranslstors Phototranslstors diode arrays

Stroke analysis Stroke analysis None None None

& curve tracing

9-track; see

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^- 7- or 9-track;

-comments 556 or 800 bpi

- - -

-

--

^- ^- 5- to 8-lavel 6-level TTS

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^- ^{1200 bps}

-

-- - Clota GaiNial MCSo;

Nova

85 to 167 67 1.3 (full) 1.3 (full) 1.3 (full)

NA - 34 34 34

40 handprinted or - 60 60 60

250 computer-printed

Ves Ves No V .. Ves

Ves Ves V .. V .. Ves

Ves No

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^Optional ^Optional

72,500+ 80,000 15,500 20,120 to 22,500

42,200

1,486+ 1,700 to 2,200 L ... e/purchase Lease/purchase L.ase/purch ...

May 1973 Oct. 1970 Sept. 1970 Feb. 1971 May 1973

6 17 50 30 22

Also outputs to OutpjJt Is Entry 2 system System Includes

IBM 374().com- MICR-encoded includes Data DEC PDP-16

patlble diskette; data at bottom General Nova minicomputer

performs field of document minicomputer; for code

con-editing for read editing and for- ve,..lon and tYP.

additional error matting provided writer keybo.rd

control by FORMATEX extension In

program tYpesetting appllcetlon

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MANUFACTURER & MODEL Datum, Inc. Decicom Decicom Decicom

50980MR DCS-1000 DCS-5000 DCS-8000

APPLICATION

Media Documents 22-column badges SO-column cards SQ-column cards

or 22-col badges or 22-col badges

Data form Marks Hollerith Hollerith Hollerith

Use Terminal On- or off-line, On- or off-line, Off-line,

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^terminal ^terminal

DOCUMENT HANDLING

Minimum size, Inches 2x2 3.250 x 2.343 3.250 x 2.343 3.250 x 2.340

Maximum size, Inches S.5 x 11

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3.250 x 7.375 3.250 x 7.375

Weight 60# Card stock or Card stock or Card stock or

plastic plastic plastic

Feed technique Friction Manual Manual Manual

Transport method Drive rollers - -

-INPUT

Characters per line 1 to 13 Up to 22 Up to SO Up to SO

Lines per Inch 1 to 6 - - ^-

.

Lines per pass 1 to 64 - -

-Field selection Internal I nternal program Internal program I nternal program Editing and formatting Internal I nternal program Internal program I nternal program

and keyboard RECOGNITION

Font or code styles read Marks Hollerith Hollerith Hollerith

Character set ASC II 0-9 0-9 0-9

Scanning technique Photocells Photocells Photocells Photocells

Character recognition technique None None None None

OUTPUT

Magnetic tape - 7-track, 200 bpi; 7-track, 200 bpi; See Comments

9-track, 800 bpi 9-track, 800 bpi

Punched cards

-Punched tape - S-Ievel S-Ievel

-Communications lines 110 to 9600 bps 300 bps 300 bps

-Computer - - -

-PERFORMANCE

Documents per minute 60 - ^-

-Lines per minute 3S40 ^- ^-

-Characters per second 800 60 60- 60

ERROR CONTROL

Automatic rescan Auto retransm. Yes Yes Yes

Reject pocket

-On-line manual correction - No Yes No

TYPICAL PURCHASE PRICE, $ 1,995 800 to 1,200 2,SOO to 3,500 2,900 to 3,700

TYPICAL MONTHLY RENTAL, $

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- ^-

-FIRST DELIVERY April 1973 1970 1970 1970

NUM8ER INSTALLED TO DATE 20

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-COMMENTS Unit will Fall-safe Fail-safe I neludes

self-retransmit on sensor and sensor and contained ca.ena request without light source light source tape recorder;

need to rescan monitoring monitoring fall-Iafe

document monitoring

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Decision, Inc.

OMR6500

Documerots, pages Marks, block print On- or off-line

3x3 9.5 x 14 20# to card stock Friction

Friction

1 to 96 marks 1 to 6 1 to 64

External program External program

Marks, block print

0-9 (block print);

binary image (marks)

Photodiodes None

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