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The Computer Journal 1960 3(1):21-22; doi:10.1093/comjnl/3.1.21
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A. H. Cockayne and E. Hyde

Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., Manchester, UK

While investigating the possibility of transferring a punched-card file of organic chemical compounds to a magnetic-tape file, a technique was used for coding the file items which is simple, leads to simple programming for the retrieval of items from the file, and, under the circumstances obtaining for the given file, resulted in savings in storage space.


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