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ERIC Number: EJ035456
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1971
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On-Line Systems: Promise and Pitfalls
Cuadra, Carlos A.
Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 22, 2, 107-114, Mar-Apr 71
The virtues of interactive systems are speed, intimacy, and - if time-sharing is involved - economy. The major problems are the cost of the large computers and files necessary for bibliographic data, the still-high cost of communications, and the generally poor design of the user-system interfaces. (Author)
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Information Services, Information Storage, Information Systems, Man Machine Systems, Online Systems
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