AUTOMATION INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01139A000200010006-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 18, 2004
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: July 1, 1958
• Content Type: MF

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INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
CODIAC-D-9
1 Jkal,y? 1958
MEIVRANDAVM IAC Committee on Documentation
stsarz Automation Information
The attached memerandatm le circulated for your information
by direction of the Chairman.
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MEMORANDUM FOR: airman, CODIAC
SUBJECT : Automation information of Interest to CODIAC
17 June 1958
The following information is reported to COD:CAC in the interest of keeping
each of the medbers informed of new machine developments:
a. HOGAN LABORATORIES, INC., 155 Perry Street, New York, N.Y.
During a recent visit to New York City, I spent several hours at the
Hogan laboratories. This Company licenses most of the facsimile equipment
in use today throughout the country by the wire services (A? and UT).
Mr. Hogan and his staff demonstrated a new techniqne for producing a
high speed facsimile transmisaion. It involves the use of a new scanning
principle and accomplishes printing at the receiving end through multiple
styli rather than a helix. I witnessed print-out by use of this technique
at the rate of 16.2 inches ieer second. Mr. Hogan said. that with modification
he felt the machine can prodnce 24 inches per second ming 8 inch width
paper. The Hogan Lab. presently has contracts with Aidressograph-Multi-
graph Corp. to read and print addresses from IBM cards at the 24 inches
per second rate. It also Fe doing developmental work for General Electric
and Lockheed. Aircraft to adapt high speed facsimile to computer output.
Varther discussion revealed that the Company is experimenting elth
facsimile reading of film; Mr. Hogan was confident that film could be
scanned and printed out on paper et high speed even at the Minicard
reduction ratio of 60-1. He later showed me satisfactory copy pro-
duced at high speed with 16m, microfilm as the source document.
b. TEN-NIS:TON UTILITIES CORP.
This is a very small company which makes TV monitors for the large
broadcasting systems. Mt. Nam, the Chief Engineer, has devised an
interesting technique for transmitting documentarymaterial to a remote
point by television without the use of the conventional TV camera and hot
lights. He built and demonstrated. a compact transmission device the size
of a small desk. A cathode ray tube: which displays a raster that is
picked. up by a photocell, is meunted under the desk with its face level
with the desk top. The system will recognize and transmit any kind of
printed matter recorded on a transparent baseoee0onae.quently, he demon.-
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placing the copy on top of the tube; he was also able to write new
information on the face of the acetate sheet which resulted in
simultaneous appearance on the TV monitor at a remote point. To
further demonstrate the machine's versatility, Mr. Odom used 2x2 slides
as the source document and obtained very satisfactory results on the
monitor. The Company is anxious to install this equipment in one
agency in Washington so that others would have a chance to see it
operate. For $3750 it offered to provide: (a) a 21 inch TV monitor
and, (b) a transmission station for viewing 16mm film aperature cards
and any printed copy on an acetate sheet.
The technique appeared very intriguing for remote viewing of film
files. Film material could either be negative or positive because TV
transmission allows for polarity reversals at the flip of a switch.
Mk. Odam saw no reason why the system could not be used for remote
viewing of Minieards. He asked that we send him a sample 16mm aperature
card and Minicard for experimentation purposes.
c. AVCO, 750 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston 15, MEI.1313.
Messrs, Louis Martin and Charles Phaneuf visited OCR on 13 June.
AVCO has under development techniques for storage of microphotographic
`grime information at 100-1 packed on glass panels. A direct access device
permits rapid selection for TV viewing of any page of any document.
Using the Cartesian coordinate scheme, AVCO believes it can position
a camera to a selected coordinate station and read out the image
information stored on the glass panels within 3/10ths of a second.
Read out would be accomplished on a TV monitor and provision would
be made for storing the video signals ilka memory so that the
customer could view the images at his own rate of speed. A Lab-
oratory bread-board model is available in Boston for demonstration
purposes.
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