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  1. Are You Being Served? (1988 Video)

    Producer
    David Saunders
    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Shows some of the computer systems which are used by the House of Fraser to manage the operation of their high-street stores and illustrates how modular design is used to help the construction and...

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  2. Keeping Tabs on the Containers (1988 Video)

    Producer
    David Saunders
    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Looks at some of the computer systems which support the movement of containers in and out of the port of Felixstowe and some of the data structures used in the system.

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  3. Indexed Files (1987 Video)

    Producer
    David Saunders
    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 23 min.

    Shows how Exeter Community Health Services use computers to file and access medical records. Uses animation to show how information is stored on disks, and explains the operation of directly indexed and...

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  4. One Small Step (1987 Video)

    Producer
    David Saunders
    Subject
    Information technology; Space science
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Looks at the way computers were used in the American space shuttle projects, particularly at computer systems in the shuttle orbiter and their relationship to the Mission Conrool unit at the Johnson Space...

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  5. Non-Euclidean Geometry, A 2 (1978 Video)

    Producer
    David Saunders
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Looks in detail at on of the non-Euclidean geometries where there is no longer a unique line through a given point parallel to a given line. The example given is the Poincare disc, where lines are defines as...

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  6. File Hierarchies and Reorganisation (1987 Video)

    Producer
    David Saunders
    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Looks at the way in which British Airways use computers for seat reservations. Animations show how files are structured with a hierarchy of indexes to allow fast access to static information about flights....

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  7. Look to the Future, A (1990 Video)

    Producer
    David Saunders
    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Looks at how computing might develop over the next few years by examining the increasingly sophisticated use of the screen interface. Looks at three research projects: icon displays for exploratory data...

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  8. Controlling the Sky (1990 Video)

    Producer
    David Saunders
    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Examines on the interface between computer systems and the people who use them, looking at a project to update the air traffic control system in the US as an example. Although air traffic control uses an...

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  9. Reflecting on Conics 1 (1987 Video)

    Producer
    David Saunders
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Investigates the so-called reflection properties of conics. If a mirror is shaped like a conic and a light ray passes through one focus, it will be reflected to go through the other focus. This property is...

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  10. Top-Down Design (1990 Video)

    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Looks at a standard technique used for preparing computer software - the method of top-down design - where an outline strategic design is produced and this is then refined until it is detailed enough to be...

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