26 May
2012
26 May
'12
8:04 p.m.
On 26 May 2012 at 18:23, Fred Cisin wrote:
Well, if we allow film, then howzbout:
Vannevar Bush and his "Memex" or
Emmanuel Goldberg's "Rapid Selector" (which unlike Bush's, actually
existed)
Both were optical encoding of half a dozen bits accompanying each fram
of film
Fred--I'm sure you heard tales of terror from the Lawrence Berkeley
and Livermore crowds about the IBM 1360 Photostores in use there.
Best device since the degausser for destroying archival data. "Your
file has been photostored was something nobody wanted to read."
But no, I was thinking about ink-on-paper, digital read/write
recording.
--Chuck