Electronic filing has become popular, where information is recorded/stored on magnetic or optical recording media. There are two kinds of recording formats, codes and images. Magnetic recording media include floppy disks, magnetic disks, magnetic tapes. Replay only type, postscript adding type and rewriting available type media are categorized under optical recording media. Each of recording method/media has its own advantages, so that we need to choose it according to our own objectives. The author describes information retrieval systems of electronic files, i.e., documents prepared by a word processor and optical disks, using general purpose computers and communication networks.
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