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1、Appendix1OfficeAutomationSystemOfficeAutomationisageneraltermthatincludesawiderangeofapplicationsofcomputer,communicationandinformationtechnologiesinofficeenvironments.Thoughautomationisinacontinualstateofflux,thesizeofthemarketishuge,withannualinvestmentsmeasure
2、dinbillionsofdollars.Automationhasalterednotonlyourworkenvironment,butourveryconceptofwork.Thetechnologyweseetodayhaditsstartinthe1960s,when3clearlyidentifiablestreamsofdevelopmentbecameevident.Thefirstwascomputing,wheretheearliestapplicationswereautomatedpayroll
3、andinventory-controlsystems.Otherapplicationswerealsolimitedtotheprocessingofnumericaldata.Thesesystemswereusuallyoperatedonlybyprogrammersinthedata-processingdivisionoftheorganization,whojealouslyguardedtheircomputersandthepowertheirknowledgeofthecomputergavethe
4、m.Nevertheless,theapplicationsofcomputersinorganizationalsettingsgrewtoincludemoreandmorekindsofdataprocessing.Thesecondstreamoftechnologicaldevelopmentwasintheareaoftextprocessing.Inthemid-1970sIBMintroducedaproductcalledtheMCST-MagneticCardSelectricTypewriter.T
5、hisdevicehadaboxcrammedwithelectronicequipment.TheoperatorwouldinsertaspeciallycoatedcardthesizeandshapeofastandardIBMpunchcardintoaslotonthetopoftheboxandwouldtypeontheattachedtypewriterasusual.Thecardservedasamemorydevice,onwhichthetextwouldbewritteninacodebase
6、donmagnetizedspots.Onceitwasentered,thetextcouldbeeditedandplayedback,causinganewcopytobetypedoutontheattachedtypewriter.Comparedtocurrentword-processingsystems,thisonewasprimitive,butitworked.Whilethefirst2streamswerecenteredaroundtheprocessingofinformationinthe
7、office,thethird,COMMUNICATIONSTECHNOLOGY,focusedonthemovementofinformationfromoneplacetoanother.Awiderangeoftechniquestoachievethisendwereintroduced,fromtelexandfacsimileservicestoservicesusingspeciallyconditionedTELEPHONElinesandothersusingsophisticatedsatellite
8、linksbetweendistantpoints.Theindustrytodayincludesseveraltypesofcoaxialcables,fibreopticlines,cellulartelephones,andpacket-switchedradioandtelephonelinks.Themo
