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Zator Incorporated

Zator Company was an American retrieval company founded in 1947.


Existence

The Zator Company was an American information processing and retrieval company founded in 1947 by Calvin Mooers in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Contributions

The Zatocoding method of selecting information (invented in the summer 1947) improved information retrieval using superimposed random codes. The Zatocoding system combined this method and the descriptor method of analyzing information to retrieve information from edge-notched cards.

Published the Zator Technical Bulletin.

Persons involved

Further reading

See entry for Calvin Mooers.

Papers

The records of the Zator Company are in Calvin Mooers' papers at the University of Minnesota, Babbage Institute, Minneapolis, MN. Calvin N. Mooers papers CBI 81 55455. ca. 1930-1994. [1]