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MANUFACTURER & MODEL

400 ^{Porta Pen} International, Inc.

GRAFIX I APPLICATION

Media Moving objects Stationary and Microfilm

moving objects

Data form Barcode Bar code Any

Use Industrial; on- Off-line

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^Off-line

or off-line

DOCUMENT HANDLING Unrestricted Unrestricted See comments

Minimum size, inches - -

-Maximum size, inches - -

-Weight - -

-Feed technique

-

^- Film transport

Transport method

-

^- Film transport

INPUT

Characters per line 12 digits 15 digits

-Lines per inch - -

-Li nes per pass - -

-Field selection External program - I nternal program

Editing and formatting Internal program I nternal program I nternal program

RECOGNITION

Font or code styles read 2-out-of-5 2-out-of-5 Any font, including

bar code bar code full alphanumeric

hand print

Character set Numeric 0-9 plus Any character

3 symbols set

Scanning technique Moving beam Wand CRT

(laser)

Character recognition technique None None Mix of several

OUTPUT

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

cartridge 800 or 1600 bpi

Pu nched cards - - ^Yes

Punched tape - - Yes

Communications lines 1200 bps 600/1200 bps Yes

Computer IBM Systeml7, - DEC PDP-10

DEC PDP-11, and others

PERFORMANCE

Documents per minute 60 60

-Lines per minute - -

-Characters per second - - Up to 1000

ERROR CONTROL

Automatic rescan Yes No Yes

Reject pocket No read signals - ^No

On-line manual correction Optional Yes Yes

TYPICAL PURCHASE PRICE, $ 7,000 to 2,600 to 1.3 to 1.8

8,000 3,200 million

TYPICAL MONTHLY RENTAL, $ Contact vendor Contact vendor 40-50K

FIRST DELIVERY 1973 1974 4th quarter 1973

NUMBER INSTALLED TO DATE 50 NA

-COMMENTS Finds and reads Hand-held Reads from

bar codes im- wand with microfilm; original

printed on moving numeric document size

kraft cartons keyboard and format

re-stricted by photo-graphic process only

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700-01 0-78gg Peri pherals

Input Business Machines

RIT 200 Documents Characters, marks On- or off-line

2.0 x 0.5 8.5 x 11 Tissue to card Friction Drive rollers;

hand feed

1 to 110 3 1 None

Reject correction

OCR A,OCR B, 407, E-13B, 12F, mark sense

0-9 plus 5 symbols

Self-scan diode array

Sequential feature analysis

8-bit output

-30 30 100

No No Yes

5,000 to 10,000

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700·01 Q-78hh Peripherals

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

Character recognition technique OUTPUT Documents per minute Lines per minute

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Input Business Laser Laser Lundy-Farrington

Machines Computer Corp. Computer Corp.

7100

OEM Electronics System 6000 System 7000

Any Documents, pages Documents, pages, Documents microfilm

Characters, marks Characters Any Characters, marks Any On- or off-line On- or off-line Multipocket sorter;

on- or off-line

Variable Variable Variable Up to 80

3 Variable Variable

-All All 1

External contro I Internal program Internal/external CPU program program

Internal program Internal/external CPU program program

OCR A, OCRB, Any, including Any, including OCR A, OCR B, 407, E-13B, 12F, OCR A & B, image storage mark sense 7B, handprint, handprint,

mark sense signatures

0-9 plus.5 Any Any 0-9 plus 6 alpha

symbols per font or special symbols

Self-scan diode Laser /photocells Laser /hologram Self-scan array array

Sequential feature Topographical, Topographical, Template analysis ho lographica I holographical matching 8-bit output 7- or 9-track; 7- or 9-track 7- or 9-track;

Electronics only, Holographic and MICR version of for OEM use microfiche image this unit has 1000

recognition installations to

optional date

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National Computer National Computer NCR MANUFACTURER & MODEL SentrynO i7010) Systems Sentry Systems

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⁽⁷⁰¹⁵⁾ 420-2

APPLICATION

Media Pages Pages Journal tape

Data form Marks Marks Characters

Use

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^Off-line ^Off-line ^Off-line

DOCUMENT HANDLING

Minimum size, inches 3x7 3x7 1.31 x 1 ft.

Maximum size, inches 11 x 17 11 x 17 3.25 x 130 ft.

Weight 24# 24# Std. tape

Feed technique Friction Vacuum Spools

Transport method Drive rollers Selt Drive rollers

INPUT

Characters per Ii ne 6 per inch 6 per inch 32 max.

Lines per inch 6 6 4 max.

Li n es per pass All All Continuous

Field selection Interna(program I nternal program Plugboard Editing and formatting I nternal program I nternal program Plugboard

RECOGNITION

Font or code styles read Marks Marks NCR NOF

Character set Reads binary Reads binary 0-9 plus 6

image image symbols

Scanning technique Photocells Photocells Mechanical disc

Character recognition technique None None Matrix matching OUTPUT

Communications lines 1200 bps 1200 bps

-Computer Any Any NCR Century,

-On-line manual correction Yes Yes Yes

TYPICAL PURCHASE PRICE, $ 55,000 S5,000 66,000 to

110,000

TYPICAL MONTHLY RENTAL, $ 1,300 2,150 1,400 to 2,SOO

FIRST DELIVERY Ja nuary 1973 January 1970 1966

NUMBER INSTALLED TO DATE NA NA 200

COMMENTS Flexible forms Flexible forms

design through design through software; can software; can read both sides read both sides

I nternal program Internal program I ntern",1 program

Wide range of Software Font Learning package permits loading of Multifont Library Table at run time. In-line key-disk entry is available.

Document hand ler and page hand ler are interchangeable.

70D-010-78jj Minimum size, inches Maximum size, inches Weight

Feed technique Transport method

INPUT

Characters per line Lines per inch Li n es per pass Field selection Editing and formatting

RECOGNITION Font or code styles read

Character set

Scanning technique

Character recognition technique

OUTPUT Documents per minute Lines per minute Characters per second

ERROR CONTROL Automatic rescan Reject pocket

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

NUMBER INSTALLED TO DATE COMMENTS

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OCR Systems, Inc. Optical Business Optical Optical Scanning

System 1000-8 Machines Recognition Corp.

Reader/Sorter laser OCR·ONE OCR-71 12

Documents Pages, documents Documents Documents, pages Characters, marks Characters, marks Characters, marks, Marks

barcode

'Off-line Off-line On- or off-line Terminal

2.6 x 2.75 2_9 x 3.25 2.75 x 5 2 x 3.667 8.75 x 5.75 8.5 x 14 4.875 x 9 8.5 x 11 20# to card 15# to card stock 0.003 to 0.012 in. 60#

Friction Vacuum Vacuum, friction Friction rollers Vacuum conveyor Drive rollers Conveyor belt Friction rollers trap belt

80 max. o ^{to 80} ^{1 to 85} ⁸

3 max. o ^{to 6} ^- ^{Up to 12}

3 max. All 2 Up to 61

I nternal program I nternal program I nternal program None using Lead Sheet

I nternal program Internal program I nternal program None

Wide ^{range of} OCR A, 7B, E-13B, OCR A, Marks OCR, computer, handprint

and typewriter styles plus alpha-numeric handprint

10 to 360 char- Alphanumeric Alphanumeric 0-9, alpha grid acters from and symbols

intermixed styles (OCR A); 0-9 (others)

Diode array Laser illuminated, Self-scanning Photocells photocell sensed photocell array

HardwareL Matrix matching, Feature analysis, None software feature analysis topographical

(proprietary)

7- or 9-track; 7 - or 9-track; all 7-track, 200, 556, -up to 1600 bpi popular densities 800 bpi; 9-track,

800, 1600 bpi 21 output pockets operator-prepared 2,7, and 14

Lead Sheet; docu- pockets; all use ment numbering Varian 620L mini-and error line computer; micro-marking are filmer and optional endorser are

OPtional

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Optical Scanning Optical Scanning Optical Scanning Peripheral

MANUFACTURER & MODEL Corp. Corp. Corp. Dynamics, Inc.

70 100 OpScan 37 Model 6011 MT

APPLICATION

Media Pages Pages Pages, documents Cards

Data form Marks Marks Characters, marks Marks, holes

Use Off-line Off-line Terminal or On-line

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^off-line

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DOCUMENT HANDLING

Minimum size, inches 8.5 x 11 8.5 x 11 2 x 3.667 3.25 x 7.375

Maximum size, inches 8.5 x 11 8.5 x 11 8.5 x 11 3.25 x 7.375

Weight 60# 60# 20 # to card stock Card stock

Feed technique Friction rollers Friction rollers Friction rollers Friction Transport method Friction rollers Friction rollers Friction rollers Drive rollers INPUT

Characters per line 1 to 8 1 to 16 1 to 72 Up to 80

Lines per inch Up to 12 Up to 12 3

-Lines per pass 61 62 30

-Field selection Plugboard Program sheets Program sheets

-Editing and formatting None Plugboard Program sheets

-RECOGNITION

Font or code styles read Machine or hand- Machine or hand- OCR A, handprint, Marks, holes, or

made marks made marks marks marks and holes

intermixed

Character set Alphanumeric plus Alphanumeric plus Full alphanumeric -11 symbols 11 symbols plus special

symbols

Scanning technique Photocells Photocells I ntegrated photo

-array

Character recognition technique None None Feature analysis, -matrix matching OUTPUT

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

1600 bpi

Punched cards - 80-column No

-Punched tape - - 5-, 7-, or 8-level

-Communications lines - -- 110 to 9600 bps

-Computer - - -

-PERFORMANCE

Documents per minute 40 40 4 to 400 600

Lines per minute - - 120

-Characters per second - - 200

-ERROR CONTROL

Automatic rescan No No Yes

-Reject pocket Yes Yes Yes

-On-line manual correction No No Yes

-TYPICAL PURCHASE PRICE, $ 34,750 41,770 39,000 to 2,915 (qty. 1);

51,000 2,150 (qty. 100)

TYPICAL MONTHLY RENTAL, $ 818 1,044 1,200 to 1,900

-FIRST DELIVERY 1966 1963 Dec. 1973 NA

NUMBER INSTALLED TO DATE 150 400 NA NA

COMMENTS Characters inter- Oriented toward For OEM use;

preted by position test scori ng but five other models of mark within an can read data available with identified type of si mi lar to 70 speeds of 300,

grid (field); alpha- 500, or 600 cpm

betic, numeric, mixed, and special grids can be used

70D-010·78kk Peripherals

Recognition Equipment Inc.

Retina

Documents, pages Characters Off-line

3.25 x 3.25 4.75 x 8.75 12 # to card stock Air-vacuum Vacuum and belts

4 to 12 char/inch 6

1 or 2

I nternal program I nternal program

Modu lar circuit boards permit reading almost any type style in-cluding numeric hand printing Up to 360 char., intermixed, plus hand-printing (0-9, 5 letters, 2 symbols) Photo array Matrix matching

7 - or 9-track;

200,556, or 800 bpi

-1200

-2400

Yes Yes Yes 875,000

18,000 to 20,000 1964 Over 80 Alternate or ad-ditional compo-nent reads 7 to 24 pages/min., up to SO lines/

page, 16# to 30 # paper, from 3.25 x 4.75 to 14 x 14

700-010-7811

Peripherals

MANUFACTURER & MODEL APPLICATION

Media Data form Use

DOCUMENT HANDLING Minimum size, inches Maximum size, inches Weight

Feed technique Transport m:Jthod INPUT

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

Font or code styles read

Character set

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

NUMBER INSTALLED TO DATE COMMENTS

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Recognition Recognition

Recognition Recognition Equipment Inc. Equipment Inc_

Equipment Inc. Equipment Inc.

Input 80 Input 80

Model 2000 Trace System Models A, B Model C

DOCUments, pages Docu ments, pages Documents Documents Characters, Characters, Characters Characters, bar

marks marks codes

Off-line Off-line On- or off-line On- or off-line, in banking 4 x 5.75 4 x 5.75 3.25 x 3.25 2.75 x 4.25 14 x 12 14 x 12 4.25 x 8.33 4.25 x 9.00 20 # to card stock 20# to card stock 20 # to card stock 24# to 100#

Air-vacuum Air-vacuum Air-vacuum Air-vacuum Vacuum belts Vacuum belts Vacuum belts Vacuum belts

1 to 137 1 to 137 4 to 10 charlinch 4 to 10 char linch

1 to 6 1 to 6 -

-1 to 8-1 1 to 81 1 1 or 2

Internal program I nternal program Internal program I nternal program Internal program Internal program I nternal program Internal program

Wide range of Wide range of OCR B, 1403, E-13B, OCR B, OCR, computer, OCR, computer, 1428, 12F OCR A, 1403,

and typewriter and typewriter bar codes

styles plus numer- styles plus nu-ic hand print meric hand print

40 to 360 char. 40 to 360 char. Numeric; up to Numeric; up to from intermixed from intermixed 40 masks 40 masks styles; 0-9, 5 styles; 0-9, 5

letters, 2 sym- letters, 2 sym-bOis (hand print) bois (hand print)

Photo array Photo array Photo array Photo array Matrix matching Matrix matching Matrix matching Matrix matching feature analysis feature analysis

7- or 9-track, 9-track, 800 or 7- or 9-track, 7- or 9-track;

1,000,000 600,000 700,000 856,000

10,700 to 8,265 to 18,000 14,000 to 7,885 to 17,910

28,000 16,000

3rd quarter 1971 June 1973 January 1972 August 1972

19 14 6 4

Systems are based on Datacraft 6024 System based on 12 to 24 sorting minicomputers; an optional Total Datacraft 6024 pockets; reads Data Entry feature provides in-line minicomputer; E-13B magneti-key-disk re-entry, yielding a mixed- developed for cally as well as media system (Report 700-718-01) European postal optically; output

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banks. Can be includes bar codes off-line for sort- on documents;

ing into 12 system includes

I nternal program I nternal program

OCR A, OCR B,

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Scan-Optics Scan-optics Scan-Optics Terminal

Communi-MANUFACTURER & MODEL Inc. Inc. Inc. cations Inc.

20/2Q 20110 410 TC-20/22

APPLICATION

Media Documents, pages, Documents. pages. Documents, pages, Cards journal-tape journal-tape journal-tape

Data form Chars .• marks Marks Marks Marks

Use Off-line Off-line Off-line Terminal

DOCUMENT HANDLING

Minimum size, inches 4.5 x 3 4.5 x 3 2.25 x 3 3.25 x 4.5

Maximum size, inches 9 x 14 6x9 6x9 3.25 x 14

Weight 16# to 100# 16# to 100# 16# to 100# Card stock

Feed technique Friction Friction Friction Friction

Transport method Vacuum belts. Vacuum belts. Vacuum belts, Drive rollers

rollers rollers rollers

INPUT

Characters per line 80 max. 80 max. 80 max. 24 to 74 col.

Lines per inch 6 max. 6 max. 6 max.

-Lines per pass 76 max. 30 max. 30 max.

-Field selection I nternal progr~m Internal program Internal program None Editing and formatting I nternal program Internal program I nternal program None RECOGNITION

Font or code styles read OCR A, OCR B, OCR A, OCR B, OCR A, OCR B, Marks 12F, 7B, 1403, 12F, 7B, 1403, 12F. 7B, 1403,

407, 1428E, NOF, 407, 1428E, NOF, 407. 1428E. NOF.

E13-B. handprint, E 13-B. handprint. E 1 3-B. handprint.

marks marks marks

Character set Full font Full font Full font 0-9 plus 5 symbols

Scanning technique Image dissector I mage dissector Image dissector Fiber optics, photocells Character recognition technique Feature matching Feature matching Feature matching None OUTPUT

Magnetic tape 7- or 9-track; 556 7- or 9-track; 556 7- or 9-track; 556 -to 1600 bpi to 1600 bpi to 1600 bpi

Punched cards - - -

-Punched tape ^- ^- -

-Communications lines - - - 110 to 300 bps

Computer - - -

-PER FORMANCE

Documents per minute 500 500 500 15

Lines per minute - - -

-Characters per second 2000 2000 2000 10,15, or 30

ERROR CONTROL

Automatic rescan Yes Yes Yes No

Reject pocket Yes Yes Yes No

On-line manual correction Yes Yes Yes No

TYPICAL PURCHASE PRICE, $ 154,815 to 122,794 to 130.830 to 1,235 to 1.275

197,815 168,212 173.228

TYPICAL MONTHLY RENTAL, $ 4,600 3,800 4.000 NA

FIRST DELIVERY Sept. 1970 March 1973 Dec. 1973 Feb. 1970

NUMBER INSTALLED TO DATE NA NA NA 50

COMMENTS Includes minicom- Includes minicom- Includes minicom- Two models, one puter with 8K puter with 8K puter with 8K with 8-level ASCII 16-bit words, 16-bit words, 16-bit words, output and the expandable to expandable to expandable to other compatib Ie

32K 32K 32K with the IBM

2740

70D-010-78mm Peripherals

-True Data Corp.

Model 800 PIM Cards

Marks, holes On- or off-line, terminal 51-column card 80-column card Card stock Friction Drive rollers

Up to 51 or 80

-External program External program

Marks and/or punches

-Photo transistors w/fiber optics

-Standard and custom interfaces

600 to 800

-Yes No No 2,895 Contact vendor

July 1973 200 Punched and marked cards can be intermixed;

96-column card capability is

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planned, 200400 cpm models are also available

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70o-010-78nn Peripherals

MANUFACTURER & MODEL

APPLICATION 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 Documents per minute Lines per minute Characters per second

ERROR CONTROL Automatic rescan Reject pocket

On-line manual correction TYPICAL PURCHASE PRICE, $

TYPICAL MONTHLY RENTAL, $ FIRST DELIVERY

NUMBER INSTALLED TO DATE COMMENTS

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UNIVAC Westinghouse Westinghouse Wyle

2703 learning W-2000 learning W-2300 Model 710

Documents 80-column, 29- Pages Cards

channel cards

Chars., marks, Marks, punches Marks Marks punches

On-line Off-tine Off-line On-line

2.75 x 3 3.25 x 7 3.25 x 7 3.25 x 6 4.25 x 8.75 3.25 x 7 8.75x11.25 3.25 x 11 20# to 110# Card stock 60# offset 20# to 120#

Friction Friction Friction Friction

Belt Drive rollers Drive rollers Drive rollers

Approx. 77 max. 80 columns 58 marks No limit

- - 12 12

1 - 61 No limit

External program Internal program I nternal program -External program Internal program I nternal program

-UNIVAC H-14, Marks, punches Marks Marks OCR A, OCR B

0-9 plus 4 symbols Binary image Binary image

-Parallel photocells Photocells Photocells Phototransistors

Matrix matching None None None

Includes minicom- Includes minicom- Punched and puter with up to puter with up to marked data can 32K; reads both 32K; reads both be intermixed sides of documents sides of documents

in si ngle pass: 58 in single pass: 58 data channels, data channels,

80 rows 61 rows

700-010-80a Peripherals

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