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Trautman, Rodes – Online, 1983
Reviews computer storage devices designed to provide additional memory for microcomputers--chips, floppy disks, hard disks, optical disks--and describes how secondary storage is used (file transfer, formatting, ingredients of incompatibility); disk/controller/software triplet; magnetic tape backup; storage volatility; disk emulator; and…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Computer Storage Devices, Diagrams, Information Storage
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Lindquist, Mats G. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1978
An analysis of computer-based search services (ISSs) from a system's viewpoint, using a continuous simulation model to reveal growth and stagnation of a typical system is presented, as well as an analysis of decision making for an ISS. (Author/MBR)
Descriptors: Administration, Computer Storage Devices, Diagrams, Graphs