Oak Park and River Forest High School - Tabula Yearbook (Oak Park, IL)

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mi Retrieval SysTem Un lvlonday, lvlay 6, The random access reTrieval sysTem began operaTion in The high school library. Rooms 228 and 230 serve as Temporary locaTion Tor The complex eguipmenT. The TirsT porTion oT The Three sTage sysTem in- volves The insTallaTion oT elecTronic eguipmenT capa- ble oT supplying TiTTeen-minuTe programs oT insTruc- Tion recorded on audio Tape. By means ol push buTTons locaTed in each individ- ual elecTronic sTudy sTaTion, or carrel, a sTudenT may selecT any recording To which he wishes To lisTen. Each carrel is connecTed To a cenTral compuTer con- Trolling The sTorage banks which house The masTer Tapes. ApproximaTely ThirTy seconds aTTer a selec- Tion has been made, a slave Tape has copied The masTer Tape and has been direcTed To The respecTive carrel. ConseguenTly, any given Tape is available To any given sTudenT aT any given Time. As The sysTem is expanded, The number oT carrels will be increased and video service will be provided To Them. UlTimaTely iT will be possible To provide program service To The oTher schools in our high school disTricT. The reTrieval sysTem has been made possible by a SIB million granT Trom The US. OTTice oT EducaTion. Mr. Johnson checks sysTem conTrol console.

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Arrives the Last Week in February Mr. Frey helps ihe rnasler sroraqe unil lhrough Jrhe door, The library al Oala Park and River Foresl l-ligh School was chosen by rhe Unired Slrares Deparr- menr of Educalrion lo be a pioneer in rhe develop- rnenr ol a Random Access Relrieval Syslem, which can malce alrnosl inslanlly available any one ol hun- dreds ol recorded rapes srored in a bank ol rapes. Ampex Corporalion, ol California, worlced wilh lhe school on lhe proiecl, Jrhe only one of Hs lcind in The counlry. Mr. Ted Johnson ol our l-lisrory Deparlrnenl has worlced as direcffor ol lhe proiecl.