Document locating filing system - has characteristic word assigned to each document and contains search and select device

摘要

After search information has been preset in the form of keywords, the search and select device serves to select device serves to select one or more characteristic words. This search and select device is a fixed-programmed or programmable minicomputer (1) which has access, controlled via the keywords, to a reference data bank which is stored in a memory (2) and contains all the characteristic words of the file. There can be at least one document carrier in the form of a strip (7) displaceable in both directions longitudinally and storing documents on it in miniaturised form.