STUDY OF TYPEWRITER STANDARDIZATION AND INPUT DEVICES FOR AUTOMATED SYSTEMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B05703A000100010011-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 9, 2004
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: December 2, 1963
• Content Type: MF

Approved Fglease 0 CIA-RDP78B057 00100010011-2
2 DEC 1963
The chairman of the task force organized to undertake the study is Mr.
X1 of my immediate staff. Other members of the task force are
X1 of the Planning Staff, of the Printing
X1 Services Division, and of the Supply Division. The members
MEMORANDUM FOR: Acting Chief, Planning Staff, OL
Chief, Printing Services Division, OL
Chief, Supply Division, OL
SUBJECT : Study of Typewriter Standardization and
Input Devices for Automated Systems
1. The Assistant Deputy Director for Support has expressed interest in the use-
fulness of such recent innovations in the office machine field as the IBM Magnetic Tape
Selectric Typewriter (MTST). In addition, he expressed his concern with some of the
practical difficulties arising out of the numerous type styles in use within the Agency.
2. The Assistant Deputy Director for Support, upon receiving the information
he requested, agreed with our recommendation that a more long-range, technically
oriented study be conducted which would be primarily concerned with what kind of secre-
tarial composing equipment the Agency should be using five years from now. This
question cannot be answered adequately without considering the input devices for the
various automated projects currently in use or contemplated for such activities as the
Signal Center, Cable Secretariat, ational
Photographic Interpretation Center, Office of Strategic Research, special projects of
the irectorate of Intelligence, and the Support Information Processing System Task
Force. We will ask personnel of these activities to brief Office of Logistics personnel
conducting this study on the input devices contemplated for their particular systems.
of the task force are to be available to the chairman to the extent he requires them in
order to carry out the study in a thorough and expeditious manner.
DECLASS REVIEW by NGA
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