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楼宇智能化专业英语 教学课件 化学工业出版社 楼宇智能化专业英语 Unit Five Office Automation System * * 高职高专规划教材 楼宇智能化专业英语 Text Office Automation is a general term that includes a wide range of applications of computer, communication and information technologies in office environments. Though automation is in a continual state of flux, the size of the market is huge, with annual investments measured in billions of dollars. Automation has altered not only our work environment, but our very concept of work. Text A The Development of Office Automation 译文： 办公自动化的发展 办公自动化系统是一个通用术语，它包括在办公环境中计算机应用的广泛范围、通信和信息技术。虽然自动化是在不断的变化，但是市场的规模是巨大的，每年在这方面的投资达数十亿美元。自动化改变的不仅是我们的工作环境，还有我们的工作概念。 楼宇智能化专业英语 The technology we see today had its start in the 1960s, when 3 clearly identi-fiable streams of development became evident. The first was computing, where the earliest applications were automated payroll and inventory-control systems. Other applications were also limited to the processing of numerical data. These systems were usually operated only by programmers in the data-processing div- ision of the organization, who jealously guarded their computers and the power- ful knowledge gaven by the computer. Nevertheless, the applications of compt-ers in organizational settings grew to include more and more kinds of data pro- cessing. 译文： 我们今天看到的这项技术是从上世纪60年代开始，三种主流技术的发展特征很明显。首先是计算，其中最早开发的是自动发薪和库存控制系统。其他应用还仅限于处理数字数据。这些系统通常只能由数据处理部门的程序员来操作，他们对于计算机本身以及计算机所赋予他们的强大力量感到非常嫉妒。然而，在组织的设定方面，计算机的应用变得包括越来越多的数据处理。 楼宇智能化专业英语 The second stream of technological development was in the area of text process-ing. In the mid-1970s IBM introduced a product called the MCST – Magnetic Card Selectric Typewriter. This device had a box crammed with electronic equipment. The operator would insert a specially coated card the size and shape of a standard IBM punch card into a slot on the top of the box and would type on the attached typewriter as usual. The card