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Well, what we would have done already is to store information into the computer about previous election results. Going back to 1960 we will then on election night have phone calls from various people at the booths phoning in election results in certain key precincts. This information will

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then be recorded on an IBM punch card. It will then be read into the computer and stored in the computer's memory. This will then give us information for the current election night as well as information from the past elections. Well, now, if we should call on

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election night for the results of a particular precinct in SAn mateo or SAn Francisco county. Say we want to see what it looked like this year as opposed to the other years. How will the viewers see this? Will it come up on the television screen? And

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if so by what means in order to get this information out, an operator will key in certain codes that will retrieve the information that's been requested. This information will then be displayed on what we call a video display unit which is similar to a television screen.

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The information will then be picked up by the television cameras and shown to the viewers. Can this be put on almost instantaneously? That's correct. It should be a matter of a second or two. Now, is there anything these computers cannot do? It seems like a lot

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of can do. But is there anything that it can't do? Well, one of the things we will not be doing is we will not be giving predictions through the computers. This is an area that is very touchy and we have not programmed the system to make

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any projections or predictions. So this is something that we will not be doing all you're really doing then is giving out information which can then be analyzed by human minds, not mechanical. That's correct. It's primarily in order to get the information rapidly and in the sequence

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that an individual would like to see it and then they can make their own predictions. This innovation in Bay Area election coverage is actually an IBM 3 60 computer. It's located in the home office of the fireman's fund american insurance company on California street in san

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Francisco. This computer has a 500,000 memory positions of which KPI X News is using about 20,000 on Tuesday night. It's taken many weeks to program the machine. And one of the key people involved has been Mr paul Osborne of Osborn associates. Mr Osborn did the computer

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work and the memory work into the machine for Tuesday night's election. It should be re emphasized that this computer is not being used for predictions. It's just another tool through which KPI X News hopes to bring you more complete election coverage and to enable you to

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better understand and evaluate the election returns on Tuesday night rollin post for eyewitness News at the fireman's fund american insurance company in san Francisco