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Introduction / Guidebook Space Frame Design for a Space Age Look "The New Business World" Gallery

Space Age construction: Space Frame Construction on display at the NCR Pavilion. Enjoy our gallery of NCR Pavilion photographs and recollections of the Pavilion's chief designet. Among the displays are a giant children's abacus, a microscopic Bible and a computer that answers a variety of questions. View the Industrial Area Map Locate It: B5 A large assortment of business machines demonstrates methods of storing, handling and retrieving information. Some of the machines may be operated by visitors; several are designed for children. COMPUTER CHATTER. Visitors may sit at typewriter keyboards and write out questions on anything from exotic recipes to historic events. The computer prints out the answers on free souvenir forms. MICROWORLD. Displays of miniaturization include a small stack of cards holding as much information as a multivolume encyclopedia, and a working TV screen only one sixteenth of an inch square. FUN AND FIGURES. In a game room children and adults can operate a giant abacus or brightly colored cash registers that give receipts. BUSINESS MACHINES. On display is a supermarket checkout system that automatically counts redeemable coupons and bottles, and calculates and dispenses change. Other exhibits include an electronic accounting machine and a fully automated branch banking system. ELECTRONIC MAGIC. Four types of computers are shown in action. One desk model prints out souvenir mathematical games. The description of this exhibit from the 1965 Official Guide Book