GE 235 System Manual page 80

GE-235 12-POCKET DOCUMENT HANDLER
Reads and sorts up to 1200 magnetically encoded source documents per minute.
On-line, sends information to the central processor for further processing while sorting
documents; off-line, acts a s a sorter only.
Sorts documents in a wide variety of formats and ranging in size from 2-1/2 by 5-1/4
inches to 3-3/4 by 8-3/4 inches.
2500 documents can be placed in the document handler feed hopper at one time; 1500
documents in each pocket.
Handles defaced and mutilated documents also.
Reads E13b font characters which a r e a s easily recognizable to the human eye a s to the
document handler.
FORMATS
The six BCD bits occupy the six least significant bit positions of each memory location. If the
BCD character is a numeric digit, all remaining bit positions a r e zeros. If the BCD character in
memory i s a cue character, a one bit i s placed in the sign and the most significant bit positions.
I f the BCD character in memory is an invalid character, a one bit is placed in the sign position
only.