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Computer Work Stations

A Manager’s Guide to Office Automation and Multi-User Systems

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  1. Herman Holtz
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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. The Work-Station Concept

    • Herman Holtz
    Pages 1-5

  3. A More Sophisticated Model

    • Herman Holtz
    Pages 7-14

  4. Some Off-the-Shelf Systems

    • Herman Holtz
    Pages 15-24

  5. The Basic Integrated Computer Work Station

    • Herman Holtz
    Pages 25-34

  6. Planning for the Future: Compatibility and Expandability

    • Herman Holtz
    Pages 35-48

  7. Setting Goals

    • Herman Holtz
    Pages 49-60

  8. Communications/Transmissions Problems

    • Herman Holtz
    Pages 61-70

  9. What do you really want from your system?

    • Herman Holtz
    Pages 71-83

  10. Proprietary and Open Systems

    • Herman Holtz
    Pages 85-94

  11. Do-It-Yourself Systems

    • Herman Holtz
    Pages 95-102

  12. The Heart of the System—and of the Problem

    • Herman Holtz
    Pages 103-120

  13. Software, Standards, and Compatibility

    • Herman Holtz
    Pages 121-128

  14. Choosing the Hardware

    • Herman Holtz
    Pages 129-132

  15. Interconnection

    • Herman Holtz
    Pages 133-147

  16. Computers, Terminals, and Work Stations

    • Herman Holtz
    Pages 149-165

  17. Printers, Plotters, and Graphics

    • Herman Holtz
    Pages 167-184

  18. Memory, On-Line Storage and Disk Drives

    • Herman Holtz
    Pages 185-201

  19. Miscellaneous Hardware

    • Herman Holtz
    Pages 203-212

  20. Telecommunications

    • Herman Holtz
    Pages 213-227
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Most of us do not realize that we are living in revolutionary times. To a large degree, we are in a time of massive economic and industrial change, and perhaps history will one day record this era as the Second Industrial Revolution. Certainly we have been made aware of the decline of "smoke­ stack industries" and of the rapid rise of what might be called the "infor­ mation industries" in the United States and, presumably, in most of the western world. Several best-selling authors have assured us that we must change or perish, and a great many industrialists appear to agree. Ironically, we have also been all but promised a return to a modern form of that very cottage industry economy that the first Industrial Revolution wiped out: Some of our leading savants envision individuals working at home on desktop computers, connected via hardwire (telephone) to an employer's large, central computer. Will this come to pass? Perhaps; the industrial/economic indicators appear to point in that direction, although there are the problems of numerous laws and regulations -labor laws and OSHA laws, to name only two areas, and ignoring for the moment the reaction of our labor unions - that would be most difficult to reconcile with such an arrangement. In a sense, it is the computer that has brought about this condition.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Computer Work Stations

  • Book Subtitle: A Manager’s Guide to Office Automation and Multi-User Systems

  • Authors: Herman Holtz

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2537-6

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Herman Holtz 1985

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-412-00711-8Published: 15 August 1985

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-2537-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 302

  • Topics: IT in Business, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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