These include a sink with towels and washcloths, a complete lunch menu, and a fully computerized voting system.
The books are in alphabetical order, but they are a long way from being cataloged in a fully computerized system.
Mr. Menchini says fully computerized, i.e. fully inhuman, systems tend to fry his patience: "Try getting flight information from your airline lately?" he sneers.
Besides, the technology can be clunky and expensive -- $5 million to $15 million for fully computerized patient records at a medium-size hospital.
And more than half of all outpatient practices still use paper charts, making health care the only major industry that is not fully computerized.
Mr. Forrest said the task for his county was made easier because the hospital's records were fully computerized, no paper records had been destroyed as they often are after several years, and people's memories are still relatively fresh.
A fully computerized typesetter with sophisticated electronics can set up to 10,000 characters per second, the actual speed being limited by the speed of the film transport mechanism.
Waiting at any government office is usually a hassle – lines are long and move slowly, and layers of paperwork slow down the process because many offices are not fully computerized.
But the New York effort, however incomplete, shows how much it can take to make a difference -- a new agency reporting to the mayor, a half-billion dollar budget increase over six years, a fully computerized file system, drastically reduced caseloads.
But last month, 75 years after its founding, Scalamandré announced it had sold the old red brick mill with the big green doors on 24th Street to Time Equities, a real estate developer in Manhattan, and was moving most of its production to a fully computerized factory in South Carolina.
The Toronto Stock Exchange, which originally used the acronym TSE, was the first North American exchange to replace fractional pricing with decimal pricing (1996), and it was one of the first major exchanges to adopt electronic trading (1997), abandoning its trading floor for a fully computerized system.
