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The JVM Archival Media disc contains a folder by this name with an MS Word file, and two illustrations, that indicate a U. S. Patent Application/disclosure was drafted on this date: Inventors - McMillin, Hansen, Funk, Forman, Van Zee, & Goodrich. The application/filing was not pursued, however, as the underlying technology was sold/leased to HBJ Publishing (Harcourt, Brace, et al). [to my recollection, 1/3/2007] See related Accession Item above, 1973_09_27_CODIT Report copyright 1974 JVM

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A 9-Page document prepared by the American College Testing Program (ACT), and reprinted with permission by Westinghouse Learning Corporation (WLC). The latest cited date in the Bibliography on page-9 is October 1, 1973, so the inference, or assumption, is that this undated ACT document was published in early 1974 - an Original Copy. JPEG Image files on JVM Archival medial disc

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This antiquated brick-tile structure, consisting of a main street-level floor and a basement, housed the MRC Engineering Department in the 1950s and early 1960s. This JVM Accession to U of I includes an Original Copy of Press-Citizen Newspaper that reported the story on Page#1, with additional photos on Page-2A. The included JVM Archival media disc contains a folder with a JPEG scan of the photos, and a JVM-prepared MS Word File that describes the Engineering activity and the names of several staff members who occupied this facility during the 1950s and early 1960s

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This 18-page document, including 6 attachments, was prepared by JVM, and summarizes the following categories: Location & Facilities, Organization, Staff, Experience/Accomplishments/Track-Record, Technical Leadership, Patents, Key OMR Concepts Developed and Pioneered by WLC/MRC, Field Support, Customer Locations, Backup Support, Credibility/Responsiveness, Future Commitment, and finally, Supplemental Information (e.g., with the six attachments). Thus this Original Copy document is a good 'snapshot' of MRC Engineering 'life' in the mid-1970's. A quick review indicates that WLC had OMR-hardware customers at 14 locations, including the UNSW in Kenningston, Australia

Scope and Contents My opinion: Like a lot of big corporations, WEC was often 'guilty' of wasting their Managers' time (and Corporate Funds!) by having us frequently attend silly mind-numbing seminars and be required to take worthless tests so that our 'behavior profile' could be analyzed by some hokey Test Package developed by one consultant or another that they had gotten suckered into purchasing. As one of the key managers at the MRC Division of WLC (a subsidiary of Westinghouse Electric Corp.), Engineering Manager, I was required to participate in more than a few of these time wasters. The 9-page results of my 'dysfunction' are enclosed, together with my circa 1970's vita. All contents also on JVM Media disc. The strong and weak points of anyone's PROFILE results analyzed by these tests are a lot like an Astrology Chart. The 'strong points' give you glow, and the 'weak points' make you very depressed; that is, if one is unfortunately inclined to believe any of this malarkey - either ancient or...

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This 5-page Technical Report, published by Auerbach Publishers, Inc., provides a review of the WESTINGHOUSE LEARNING CORPORATION W2300 Optical Mark Reading System, a product originally dubbed the RASCOL, then the W300/301, etc.

Scope and Contents In the 1970's inexpensive integrated-circuits were becoming widely available, and chips with multiple functions - such as flip-flops, counters, AND, OR, NOR, NAND logic-gates, parity checkers, operational amplifiers, switches, and similar DIP modules (14 to 16-pin Dual In-line Pin connections in plastic encapsulated modules) were rapidly replacing individual transistors as the preferred means of implementing electronic functions in our WLC/MRC OMR Scanners. Accordingly, I became concerned that our key WLC/MRC engineering staff involved in circuit/logic designs would have current knowledge and skills to take full advantage of a rapidly changing design landscape. Thus, I hired University of Iowa Professor John Robinson, Electrical Engineering Dept. to develop an intensive several-week short course to be taught at our MRC facility. I assisted him in the preparation of the content - and the final exam - to be tailored specifically to our needs. This JVM Accession package consists of...

Scope and Contents This 14-page document (typed, but including my hand-written notes) covers a manager's presentation I made shortly after returning from a 3-month 'around the World' trip. As I recall, the purpose of the presentation to the WLC/MRC Managerial staff (of which I was a member, as Engineering Manager) was to rehearse a 'toot our horn' approach about our strengths, tools, techniques, and approaches to making a successful SALES PRESENTATION to prospective customers. For example, my first point was: ENGINEERING STRENGTH, followed secondly, by PRODUCTS FAMILY, then PERFORMANCE DEMONSTRATION, and onward to the 12th point, CUSTOMER SATISFACTION, and ending with a BAKER's DOZEN labeled "OUR DESTINY" (Believe in the other twelve above!). During the course of my presentation, I used a Kodak Carousel Projector to display 80 film-slides that I had taken from my round-the-world trip, and made an effort to weave these photos humorously into the points of my presentation, concluding my talk with...

Scope and Contents This 22-page Original Copy spiral-bound report, plus extensive graphs, tables, statistics, etc., was the culmination of an effort to improve the backlog/lapse of time in issuing reports to the schools following the receipt of the OMR answer sheets by MRC. In essence, our processing volume of answer sheet (count) had grown remarkably during the recent years, but our ability to 'keep up' with the 'processing flow' had not. The situation had reached a minor crises point in that the school customers were beginning to complain loudly about the delays in MRC test-result returns. Accordingly, Burdette P. Hansen, MRC General Manager, assigned the above technical oriented staff members to conduct a thorough study to identify the bottlenecks and offer solutions. The effort was begun in DEC 74 and the recommendations were required by JAN 75 in time to prepare for the heavy processing load anticipated in the spring of 1975. Numerous problems were identified by the Task Force, and the many...

Scope and Contents This rather massive, hand-printed Original Copy Manual, written by JVM, Preliminary Release #1, May 1, 1975, consists of three major sections: 1) A 176-page Glossary of Records, Terms, & Concepts, Procedures, Formats for OMR Processing of Paper Ballots, 2) A 36-page technical description of VOPAR (VOte PArity algoRithm), a paradigm for printing ballot-type ID's on both sides of each ballot such that the scanner could accurately read each ballot-type ID, even in the presence of voter scribbling and/or extraneous marks and smudges. The coding concept and implementation is explained in detail. 3) A 44-page section describing B-TOS, a scheme comprised of many separate modules, or elements of the software, when operating as an integrated whole, produces the many reports, records, summaries, logs, etc., required in the machine-processing of ballots. Descriptions of the major components follow in this section. The Ballot Processing System covered in this Introductory Guide, was...

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There were a number of articles in the local papers about WLC acquiring MRC. This 4-page hard-copy MS File printout is an example, presented in MS Word format, with the several embedded photos, and includes the text transcription of the Press-Citizen news announcement.) JVM Note: A small portion of the transcribed text (and corresponding JPEG Image capture portion) may be missing from this file. See the next reference file below for a complete transcription, including the few missing lines of the original text)

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This 6-page MS Word file has the original Press-Citizen photos shown in the June 28, 1968 announcement of the Westinghouse Subsidiary (WLC) purchasing MRC, as well as the JVM transcription of all of the text. Also included in this file is the text transcription of the Press-Citizen Editorial Page comment about "NEW CITIZEN" that appeared the following day, along with the accompanying JPEG Image scan

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The Editorial Page of the Press-Citizen commented on the "New Citizen" that would be in Iowa City. This JVM 1-page Word file contains a JPEG Image scan of the original CLIP, and the transcribed text. This file is a subset of the preceding one

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Another hard-copy printout of one of the files in the 1968 WLC-MRC acquisition Folder, as described above. The JPEG Image scan of the original newspaper news_CLIP is also in this folder. [The Daily Iowan: (likely) original source]

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Another hard-copy transcribed printout (3-pages) of one of the MS-word files in the 1968 WLC-MRC acquisition, as described above. JPEG Image scans of the 4 original pages of the University News Release are also in this folder

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Another hard-copy printout of a 1-page MS Word file, transcribed by JVM, in the 1968 WLC-MRC acquisition Folder, as described above. The JPEG Image scan of the original page_CLIP from the Des Moines Register is also in this folder

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Another hard-copy (2-pages) printout of one of the MS Word files, transcribed by JVM, in the 1968 WLC-MRC acquisition Folder, as described above. The JPEG Image scan of the original Page #12 from the AEDS Monitor is also in this folder

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A 1-page MS Word file transcribed, with a JPEG Image of the Original Clipping, of a 1968 Publication by a journal named Educational Research, Issue/Vol #5

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A 14-page handout about WLC at the time of the MRC Acquisition; includes Project PLAN description. Original Copy of handout; folder includes first 5pages of JPEG Image files on JVM Archival media disc

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Simmons, Perrine Albright & Ellwood, Mr. James C. Nemmers, Patent Attorney, requesting a Patent Search (for prior art, prior to filing) of an invention by JVM entitled, Digitally Converted Analog Discrimination, or DICAD, which was the widely used acronym to define this technology in a long succession of MRC/WLC OMR scanners in the ensuing years