Cyberspace, CD-ROMs, and ADC. (automatic data collection)(Information/Control Systems)(Editorial)

Modern Materials Handling, August, 1995 by Bushnell, Rick

Increasingly, the information superhighway and other media are your routes to learning more about automatic data collection.

Need more information about automatic data collection (ADC)? Let fax back phone lines and the Internet do the walking for you, CD-ROMs and voice simulation do the talking.

There's a new class of knowledge-building, electronic media developing. And they're rapidly adding ADC topics.

With a fax machine you can readily tap into sources that will send you reams of pages of valuable data. With a computer and modem, the Internet and a growing number of bulletin boards and home pages are there to "surf." CD-ROMs are another electronic media option-often with dazzling graphics, large databases.

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