a

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MRe LeVINE:

ZT want to make a

statement that this ia not a low level

laboratory,

(Laughter.)

MR. EISENBUD:

laboratory.

He's talking about

MRe LeVINE:
I think with a
hundred thousand samples that we get to~

gether a year, and the need to add aiditional

information such as instrument geometries,

accounting efficiencies, where the samples
came from, how o1d ft is -- all there other

factors to tally into the number of dis-

integrations per hour and per minute at tine
zero ~- the problem of manually handling

this data -- well, it's almost insuperable

especially when you can't get enough people

to do the job.

It 49 difficult to train verson=

nel to transcribe data accurately and al-

though we use fairly simple equipment with
a lot of people to get a set of reliable
data that you can take without question, we have to go to automation and this is ina
sense, this IBM system that we are developing
now,
Now, whether we put it on IBM punch

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