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Zator Incorporated

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ORGANIZATION: Zator Company
ACTIVE DATES: 19471-
ADDRESS: Cambridge, Massachusetts
E-MAIL:
PERSONS INVOLVED: Calvin Mooers
MAJOR PROJECTS: Zatocoding system
OTHER INFORMATION: The Zatocoding method of selecting information (invented 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.2
SOURCE: 1. Crowe, S. H. (2009, January). Calvin N. Mooers papers [Finding aid]. Charles Babbage Institute Archives. https://archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/3/resources/105

2. Mooers, C. (1979). Rigors of a pioneer in information science (1978 Award of Merit Speech). Bulletin of the American Society of Information

Science, 5(3), 14.

PAPERS AT:
LOCATION
Records of the Zator Company are in Calvin Mooers' papers at the Charles Babbage Institute Archives, University of Minnesota
PAPERS DATES: 1930-1992
SIZE: 37 cubic feet / 39 boxes
INCLUDES:
SOURCE: https://archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/3/resources/105