Form and Function: An Approach to the Automated Office

Susan Curran and Horace Mitchell

Chapter 6 in Office Automation, 1982, pp 87-101 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract A familiar and useful concept is to think of the work the computer does in terms of an input-processing-output sequence. ‘Input’ refers both to the contents of the work and to the form in which it is entered (punched cards, keyboard entry, stored information on tape, etc.); ‘output’, similarly, means both the information that comes out and its physical form. And the ‘processing’ is what the computer is there for: the essential, if to many mysterious, operation which turns the raw input into the desired finished output.

Keywords: Electronic Mail; Word Processor; Routine Task; Office System; Input Medium (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1982
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-05975-1_7

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