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Form and Function: An Approach to the Automated Office

In: Office Automation

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  • Susan Curran
  • Horace Mitchell

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A familiar and useful concept is to think of the work the computer does in terms of an input-processing-output sequence. ‘Input’ refers both to the contents of the work and to the form in which it is entered (punched cards, keyboard entry, stored information on tape, etc.); ‘output’, similarly, means both the information that comes out and its physical form. And the ‘processing’ is what the computer is there for: the essential, if to many mysterious, operation which turns the raw input into the desired finished output.

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  • Susan Curran & Horace Mitchell, 1982. "Form and Function: An Approach to the Automated Office," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Office Automation, chapter 6, pages 87-101, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-05975-1_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-05975-1_7
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